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August 09, 2008
3 cheers for Labour's 3 top thinkers
The Fabians. Progress. Compass. Three of the four major think tanks and policy movements within Labour (the other is the co-operative movement), representing all wings of the party and its membership. It is interesting to note that the heads of all 3 are in favour of electoral reform.
Sunder Katwala, head of the Fabians, has been advocating reform for some time; writing about the Alternative Vote as part of wider constitutional reform package.
And in today's Guardian, an exchange of letters between Neal Lawson, Compass chair and Robert Philpot, head of Progress makes clear their positions on PR.
Neal (who is on the MVC Management Committee in a personal capacity), includes "introduce a fair voting system" in his list of policy prescriptions. And Robert in his response agrees that: "like you, I support making it fairer by introducing proportional representation".
While there are plenty of specifics that these three big players in Labour's strategic and policy direction disagree on, it is instructive that on this issue they are united.
Posted by malcolmclark on August 09, 2008
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"While there are plenty of specifics that these three big players in Labour's strategic and policy direction disagree on, it is instructive that on this issue they are united"
It could well be that if we had governments that actually represented what the electorate had voted for, may of these disageements would become irrelevant and would disappear.
Posted by: Joe Patterson at August 9, 2008 05:00 PM
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