Dan

@bam57581565 @A1an_M @AaronBastani Yes we have made errors and stupid decisions of our own but we're still going to get a pasting for things we have no say in. Energy crisis caused by Trumps war in Iran pushing up prices here - Labours fault. Vote them out. There is no common sense to it.

@bam57581565 @A1an_M @AaronBastani Your biggest problem there though is common sense. We're about to get a massive kicking for depending who you ask - Not fixing 14 years of Tory mess in the first two years. Not ending the war in Gaza despite us having no influence at all over it. The Boriswave.

We need PR. STV or additional member system would create more stability, not less. It’s very possible that the adversarial two party system possibly can’t work in the information environment we now have.

@bam57581565 @A1an_M @AaronBastani That would inevitably lead to a formal organisational structure would it not? A Party even...........

@Dan__9000 @A1an_M @AaronBastani They don't need to be elected on "widely varying...platforms". Anybody worth a shot at election should be aware of the main concerns of the country & know the priorities that need addressing. Those who stand with the country will already be in agreement before they get in.

@bam57581565 @A1an_M @AaronBastani This is not possible in reality. A manifesto pledge can be made in completely honest good faith but then be impossible to implement due to elements completely outside of a domestic governments control.

@Dan__9000 @A1an_M @AaronBastani We need to instigate a system whereby candidates sign an affidavit undertaking to pursue their manifesto or be removed by their constuents without any financial compensation. There should be no opportunity for candidates to lie while campaigning & do someting else once in.

@A1an_M @AaronBastani We've had a constant churn of PM's over the last decade and are just pending the latest regicide. The fear is we'd just get a constant churn of elected officials to go with it leaving an ungovernable chaotic mess. Eventually nobody would bother standing.

@A1an_M @AaronBastani Look at how Labour tanked in the polls so quickly after not fixing fourteen years of Tory destruction as soon as they were elected. Don't get me wrong we've made some idiotic decisions and mistakes but a lot of the hate directed at us is because we can't deliver the impossible.

@A1an_M @AaronBastani You'd always end up with enough of them who could be brought tbf. Wouldn't even need to be that many to form a majority bloc in that scenario either.

@Dan__9000 @AaronBastani True, but it would make it more difficult for lobbyists and global quangos to inflict on us policies no-one voted for, though.

@A1an_M @AaronBastani Not sure how much we'd get done with 650 independents elected on widely varying small concentrated platforms.

We've had stability for 30 years. Blairite globalist neocon government after Blairite globalist neocon government, regardless of what policies the public actually voted for and regardlessof what was said in manifestos. PR won't fix that, in fact it will make things worse, with permanent coalition government and even more dirty deals done out of sight of the public. And, for the moment at least, we don't need stability. We need radical change. PR can't deliver that either. What we do need to do is to get rid of the party system, get rid of centrally selected candidates, and give choice and true democracy back to the electorate.

@AaronBastani End up like France I think. Three blocks tied leaving an ungovernable mess with no viable majority coalition. Fun times.

@DBrudders @Heccles94 You can take the red in tooth and claw capitalist view of it and just they can't make money so fuck them. But they don't care about all of the unemployed people that approach leads to like we do.

@DBrudders @Heccles94 Or the problem is inflationary pressure in the wider economy that you can't control. You've already increased your prices as much as your customers can bear. Absorbed the increased cost of sales and you've cut your operating costs as much as you can. It's not just simple greed.

The Greens will raise the minimum wage to £15 for all workers 💪

@DBrudders @Heccles94 We also have a serious problem here with wage compression which brings its own set of issues.

@DBrudders @Heccles94 Not all businesses are big corporate behemoths who can absorb a large increase in staff costs. Lots of SME's don't have the margin available to cut. And what they have got is being steadily eroded by the increased costs they've already taken on energy and fuel etc etc.

@NapoleonSolo26 @Liam_Holman99 L/R populism is dangerous in different ways. Both of their policy positions would be extremely destructive if acted out in full both socially and economically. Reform via deregulatory capitalism and racism etc. Greens via some batshit economic ideas alongside open borders etc.

@Dan__9000 @Liam_Holman99 Dan if you believe the Greens and Reform are equally dangerous, I’ve got some magic beans to sell you.

Reform and Greens are two sides of the same coin.

@ere_phil @ZackPolanski Not all businesses are big corporates. SME's are certainly not profiteering at the moment.

@Dan__9000 @ZackPolanski 🤔🤔🤔 theguardian.com/business/artic…

The Greens will put workers in control. ft.com/content/431a16…

@NapoleonSolo26 @Liam_Holman99 The coin is populism so he is correct.

@Liam_Holman99 I mean you have some spectacularly bad takes, but this is right up there. Lazy, boring nonsense.

@LeighQuilter @RhonddaBryant @WillKingston The upper house should be purely merit based far smaller and 100% cross party imo. Nobody gets in there automatically because a parent was. Certainly nobody gets in there due to being a member of the aristocracy.

@Dan__9000 @RhonddaBryant @WillKingston Continuity, wisdom, sense of history, attachment to place, incorruptibility, duty. To name but a few reasons

Reform, Restore and the Conservatives should all commit to immediately restoring hereditary peers if they win government.