The left’s proposed marriage was rejected decisively: No won with 875 votes to Yes’s 218. Yet the more revealing feature was the imbalance in the debate — No supplied the sharper case, while several Yes voters treated an alliance as an unpleasant defensive necessity rather than an inspiring project.
The winning side’s strongest serious argument was that the parties could not credibly govern together: “fundamentally different visions on the economy, defence, and growth.” Another respected No voice shifted the objection from party politics to the electoral system itself: “Its time for PR in this country,” rather than a pact that might simply rearrange the incentives around first-past-the-post.
Yes voters did offer a case, but it was mostly tactical and defensive. “If it means keeping out the far right so be it,” said one; another argued that “the left needs to get its act together” and present a genuinely progressive offer. The two sides were often answering different questions — No asking whether the parties could share a programme, Yes asking whether they could stop a common opponent.
That distinction explains why the Yes case struggled to gather force. Even its more sympathetic voices conceded the danger of “bickering on the left”, while No voters warned that an alliance would “confirm Labour’s dominance without incentivising electoral change”. The room’s argument was therefore not simply against cooperation, but against cooperation without proportional representation, policy discipline or a clear price for the larger party.
The verdict was less a rejection of tactical thinking than a demand that it stop pretending to be a political settlement.
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There’s nothing progressive about those parties. They are regressive economically illiterate retards!
God let's hope not. It would be the end of Britain and it's people In every sense.
So the British can see that Labour Greens Liberals etc are corrupt hard left authoritarian selfish Communists who do not have UKs interests at heart. Hard Right these days means the politics & beliefs of our grandparents: love of family country flag fairness a well defended State respect for Women & the Elderly equality before the law freedom of speech & a society pulling together in one direction & permitting vigorous dissent. What rational person would vote for opposite?
It would not be a progressive alliance. It would be an authoritarian socialist nightmare pandering ever more to a sectarian vote and a fast route to the end of democracy.
Labour, the Lib Dems, and the Greens have fundamentally different visions on the economy, defence, and growth. Voters are smart enough to vote tactically on their own without politicians forming an unprincipled cartel.
They are all awful for different reasons but I suppose they do all have somethings in common... They all support islam being the religion of the UK & the terrorist settlement of palestine. Neither of those things are good for the English.
Labour and Lib Dems? sure. Greens? Not a chance
Why not? Come out and admit you only care about ClimaTranIstine and keeping out Farage. Its true, isn't it?
I don't think it should happen, the majority should get what they want rightly or wrongly, only way the country might learn that every vote counts.
Its time for PR in this country. First past the post only works when there are only 2 choices.