Jenuall wrote:Moggy wrote:Jenuall wrote:Sadly sensible action seems to be in short supply these days.
Great to see though and this is absolutely the kind of thing that is needed!
It's crazy that left or Remain leaning people sometime cannot see just how sensible it is. For far too long Labour, Lib Dem, Green, SNP/Plaid have been competing for the same people while the Tories had no serious competition for the right wing votes.
With the Brexit Party arriving and seemingly doing well in the polls, now is the time for Remain parties to stand aside for each other to ensure that they don't cannibalise each other. If the Leave vote gets split between Tory and BP then only having one Remain party available will hopefully ensure far more Remain MPs get elected.
It'll be essential that that happens at the next GE when I imagine Farage will have his 8th go at becoming an MP.
Agreed 100%. I just cannot fathom how we have managed to get so close to this cliff edge without the Remain leaning parties being prepared to set aside some differences and take action for the common good.
Compromise is not a dirty word!
Compromise can be, depends what you are doing.....
Even in normal GE's is mental that the parties don't look at the numbers and figure out what is better.
For example if there was an area with this breakdown:
Conservative: 19,521 votes
Labour: 16,376 votes
Lib Dem: 3,199 votes
Green: 1,754 votes
It is strawberry floating crazy that in the above sort of example that the Lib Dems or Greens would stand, they might not agree with Labour, but their voters almost certainly share far more in common with Labour than they do with the Tories.
One of the biggest troubles the left has faced is needing to be pure - "Oh I couldn't vote for them because they don't agree with me 100%". It's that sort of shite that has allowed the Tories to rule for the majority of the last century.
This might become a problem for the right wing though if the BP are as strong as it currently looks. Instead of having a free run against a left split 3 or 4 ways, the Tories might see some real competition for those right wing voters.