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Polly Toynbee on Tory gerrymandering and PR
« on: June 27, 2023, 07:53:38 PM »
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/27/tories-voter-id-rules-britain-labour
Apart from her referring to "proportional representation" as though it's a single system, rather than a number of different ones, some of which (imo) would be even worse than the present system, this is an excellent article.
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Re: Polly Toynbee on Tory gerrymandering and PR
« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2023, 12:13:12 PM »
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/27/tories-voter-id-rules-britain-labour
Apart from her referring to "proportional representation" as though it's a single system, rather than a number of different ones, some of which (imo) would be even worse than the present system, this is an excellent article.

Yes, read that. Quite agree. I get your point on PR but we have plenty of examples, both that have been used here for various non-Westminster elections, and from most of Europe and elsewhere. It shouldn't be too hard to choose a reasonable system.
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