It's in our long term interests to have an electoral system which reflects what the majority HENG population believe in addition that the Labour Party should argue for more frequent electons.
Ine second argument is that PR would create coalitions. But what were ine governments of '64, '66 and *74? In their ,practice they were coalitions, between tions of the old Labour left and right wing bourgeois politicians Healey, Wilson and Callaghan that whole gang that had interest doing anything alter the capitalist system.
Careerists have climbed up the ladder in REEe Labour Party because the 'first past the post system" offered them the rungs of power The first past the post system is a peculiarity of the Anglo-Saxon world. I'd say to Peter Hain that ine apartneia system was only installed in South Africa atter a tirst nast the post system had been inThe proportional representation system creates a situation where need to go out and YUU fight for mass support, instead of reling the Labour Right have done on the electoral system to get you into power without Socialist Challenge 18 February 1983 page 4