Comments by "Curious Crow" (@CuriousCrow-mp4cx) on "The speech Keir Starmer should have given" video.

  1. I disagree. On the basis of the trends in the Popular Vote - which partirs individual voters actually voted for - since 1945, the country has always been more left wing than First Past The Post allows in seats in Parliament. That's the problem. A rigged system that negates one's vote is arguably democratic in name only. It arguably smug that the country that gave PR to West Germany after World War II to prevent another rise of Nazism, never thought to give that to its own population. Yes, British lawyers drafted West Germany's constitution. Yet that same country's leaders ignored the warnings of Lord Hailsham only a generation later about the emergence of an elected dictatorship which was intent on hoarding power to itself. Really smug, and we are suffering the consequences of that. So no real reform can take place without constitutional reform, beginning with PR and evolving more power away from Westminster to the Regions. England needs devolution, and local authorities needed to act not as Aunt Sallys, with decreasing power to respond to their local problems, but as real local governments with the power to deal with their problems. That with economic reform, will provide not only more responsive government, but a more responsive and growing economy that doesn't ignore market failures, but actively works to avoid them.
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