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Selling STV in multi member constituencies to tribal Tories
Saturday, May 8th, 2010 11:26 am
I am reading lots of high-minded arguments about fairness and what the electorate want on my f-list this morning. While these are right and valuable, they are not going to convince all the tribal tories who have failed to be convinced by these arguments over the past decades. Now is not the time for pissing in the wind.
Two things we know about tribal tories are that they love tradition, and they hate Labour. Now is the time for pointing out loudly and forcefully that multi member constituencies are the traditional British way of doing things, and Labour got rid of them in the late 40s. It's not a winning argument for reform to Lib Dems, but Lib Dems are not the ones we need to win the argument with.
Two things we know about tribal tories are that they love tradition, and they hate Labour. Now is the time for pointing out loudly and forcefully that multi member constituencies are the traditional British way of doing things, and Labour got rid of them in the late 40s. It's not a winning argument for reform to Lib Dems, but Lib Dems are not the ones we need to win the argument with.
