The truth is, the left leaning parties are engaged in a long term struggle for the same space, the same set of voters. This is why there was so little warmth between the parties, even during the dog days of the Brexit impasse in parliament. Neither Labour nor the LibDems nor the Greens will volunteer to commit slow suicide by doing a pre election pact and enabling the other side with more seats. In cricketing terms, you don't give your most dangerous opponent who is out of form an easy single every over so you can fall back to the comfort zone of targeting the other batsman whom you find easier. That way you end up playing your biggest adversary back into form and they will hurt you for a long time thereafter. This is why they won't be able to unite - because their champions are engaged in a different, private struggle.
And the solution is in fact provided by the Conservative Party, that most successful political winning machine over two centuries. It's a mindset thing. It is easy to forget, the Tories faced an existential crisis under two years ago, when May achieved their lowest ever vote in local elections. They reacted by ditching May and reinventing themselves by coalescing the whole of the Leave voting constituency around themselves. If I were Labour, I would target the LibDems, the Greens and the Celt Nats as ruthlessly as the Tories targeted first UKIP and then TBP. Labour should look to annihilate the other left leaning parties. But there again, if Labour were capable of this then they wouldn’t be Labour.
I think the purpose of any alliance has to be around electoral reform , beyond that people should be able to vote for what they believe in . Our system will only deliver a Tory government or a Labour one that has to pander to Murdoch or whatever puppet masters are influencing behind the scenes, just look where Blair has ended up , very sad after the enthusiasm of that election . Parties like the Greens have much to offer on the environment , whilst we can only hope that Electoral reform can bring the best of business and the still great if invested in public and third sectors to work for a decent country instead of the sad situation we are in currently .
The truth is, the left leaning parties are engaged in a long term struggle for the same space, the same set of voters. This is why there was so little warmth between the parties, even during the dog days of the Brexit impasse in parliament. Neither Labour nor the LibDems nor the Greens will volunteer to commit slow suicide by doing a pre election pact and enabling the other side with more seats. In cricketing terms, you don't give your most dangerous opponent who is out of form an easy single every over so you can fall back to the comfort zone of targeting the other batsman whom you find easier. That way you end up playing your biggest adversary back into form and they will hurt you for a long time thereafter. This is why they won't be able to unite - because their champions are engaged in a different, private struggle.
And the solution is in fact provided by the Conservative Party, that most successful political winning machine over two centuries. It's a mindset thing. It is easy to forget, the Tories faced an existential crisis under two years ago, when May achieved their lowest ever vote in local elections. They reacted by ditching May and reinventing themselves by coalescing the whole of the Leave voting constituency around themselves. If I were Labour, I would target the LibDems, the Greens and the Celt Nats as ruthlessly as the Tories targeted first UKIP and then TBP. Labour should look to annihilate the other left leaning parties. But there again, if Labour were capable of this then they wouldn’t be Labour.
I think the purpose of any alliance has to be around electoral reform , beyond that people should be able to vote for what they believe in . Our system will only deliver a Tory government or a Labour one that has to pander to Murdoch or whatever puppet masters are influencing behind the scenes, just look where Blair has ended up , very sad after the enthusiasm of that election . Parties like the Greens have much to offer on the environment , whilst we can only hope that Electoral reform can bring the best of business and the still great if invested in public and third sectors to work for a decent country instead of the sad situation we are in currently .