Saturday 29 December 2012

Only the left support first past the post

Tory voters are composed of two types... there are those who genuinely support the party and the fptp system. These people are not voting tactically when they support the Tories. The other group are people who would prefer to have a free choice and would prefer proportional representation but vote for the Tories to keep Labour out. We can think of this second group as true liberals and Libertarians. People who vote for the Tories non-tactically but out of true and genuine support are on the left because they are endorsing a two-party system which is not democratic. True Tories who do not support a reform of the voting system are to the left politically. People (including Tories) who support fptp are left-wing. No one on the right supports the Tory party for anything other than tactical reasons... in part at least because the Tories reject proportional representation. If the Tories reject pr then none of their genuine (non-tactical) voters can claim to be anything other than to the left. If the Tories reject pr they are left-wing. Support for fptp indicates leftism.

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