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  • kicorsekicorse Posts: 437


    Labour needs to discuss voting systems with pro-PR parties or it risks 15-20+ years of losing elections held under FPTP. AFAIK only Lewis has suggested that we need PR.

    They do need to discuss such systems, and it's great that Lewis is doing so, but until they win an FPTP election, they won't be able to change the system. Therefore, this is not a significant part of their route back to government. They will need to win some of these seats that people think they are "delusional" to aim for.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 72,243
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    Nominated Emily Thornberry for Leader

  • mattmatt Posts: 3,789
    rcs1000 said:

    Your trade deficit, or surplus, is the consequence of your household savings rate. It is nothing to do with your free trade agreements.

    We have a trade deficit, as a country, because we consume more than we make.

    Swapping an FTA with the EU for one with the US will not change or trade deficit, all it will mean is that we drink more American wine, and less French. To actually lower the trade deficit would require Brits to actually drink less.

    Or drink wine from Sussex, Cornwall and, hard to believe, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.....
  • mattmatt Posts: 3,789
    edited January 2020
    Stocky said:

    I was joking (kind of). Best part of the county is N/W, within the triangle made by Market Harborough, Northampton and Long Buckby - tis where I live, so I may be biased.
    MH is in Leicestershire? FWIW what I see of Kettering and Wellingborough from the train makes me want to stay on the train. But living somewhere is very different to being a visitor.
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