Labour’s general election blackmail is revealed in these two X posts, along with party leader Keir Starmer’s dishonesty.

First, here’s shadow health secretary Wes Streeting, telling us the only way to achieve a change from Conservative government is by voting Labour:

Complacency about the inevitability of a Labour win terrifies me.

In so many Labour v Tory races, a vote for smaller parties is a vote that helps the Tories.

You only get change if you vote for Labour.

Out on the campaign trail with @jessicaelgot 👇🏻https://t.co/rq8dg2TyCL

— Wes Streeting (@wesstreeting) June 28, 2024

The reason Streeting can say voting for anyone other than Labour helps the Tories is because the UK’s general elections are run on an archaic First Past The Post (FPTP) system that means votes for any party other than the two most popular may sway the election in favour of one or the other – meaning the party that comes in second might have won if people had not voted for candidates from smaller parties.

That would not happen under proportional representation because with that system, every vote counts and the result of an election reflects the number of people voting for each party.

Labour leader Keir Starmer has spoken very strongly in favour of proportional representation in the past; he presented himself as a leader who wanted every vote to count.

But isn’t it astonishing! With an election taking place in which his party is the clear favourite to win a large majority under FPTP, Starmer’s loyalties have flipped – as we can see here:

When he was running for Labour leader, Keir Starmer made a passionate case for electoral reform.

Now he makes a passionate case for, wait for it… the first past the post system.

One of the most deceitful and unprincipled politicians of our age.pic.twitter.com/lqUq0LH242 https://t.co/NuOmYH97R1

— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) June 27, 2024

It’s blatant opportunism and blackmail of the electorate.

Under proportional representation, a much wider variety of parties (and possibly Independents) would take Parliamentary seats, and Starmer doesn’t want that if he’s got a stab at a Labour dictatorship under FPTP.

So he has switched his support to that system and his party’s candidates are telling us we have no choice other than to vote Labour – even if we don’t like Starmer’s policies – if we want to get the Conservatives out. That is a betrayal.

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