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June 22, 2005

follow the Compass

It is always enjoyable to report good news. A debate and ballot on electoral reform was held at Saturday's impressively attended 'The Challenge Left' conference organised by Compass - the democratic left pressure group.

Not only did over 70% vote for the motion, giving further evidence of a groundswell of support in favour of electoral reform in Labour's third term. But also Oona King's impassioned speech in favour helped sway some of the doubters, including apparently a number of trade unionists and others who up until then had been hostile to our arguments. On such small steps ....

The example has been set. As Neal Lawson, Chair of Compass, the pressure group of the democratic left says ‘the government won’t give people a say on the electoral system so we thought we would at least give Compass members a vote’. Other organisations / conferences should now follow Compass' lead and hold their own debates and ballots on electoral reform.

Posted by malcolmclark on June 22, 2005

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