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Possibly – although PR tends to lead to endless coalition which is not an attractive prospect
ZE and I simply won’t ever see eye to eye. Rather than enter an extended debate on every point I’ll stick to a few of them.
Well the first part is not true – if the entire ‘working class’ turned out (it never does btw) Labour would win by a landslide every time. If you notice what Blair has been saying it has largely been designed to get the traditionally apathetic Labour supporters to turn out.
But the I think the problem is we have different definitions of ‘middle class’ looking at what you subsequently say. Middle class doesn’t even start for me until you get to affluent Professional careers. It seem to start lower for you? Many are hard working and very well paid for it – but I don’t lack compassion for them, I simply want them to return proportionally more of what they earn to society than they do now.
Negative on that for me – the Labour party is for the working man. It is the counter and the balance to the Tories. To be the everyman party just leaves us with the wishy washy mob we have now. Low taxes for all but we are left really – we just won’t talk about it too much. 
Do you truly believe that? If it is true the axis (null point) has moved hugely to the right IMO. 
I agree entirely with Immortal Wombat on University by the way – far too many school leavers now go and it has turned Universities into degree factories not centres of learning. Employers have stopped trusting degree classifications - how can this be good?
Private money in schools is okay – but the back end deals securing it need examination I think.
ZE and I simply won’t ever see eye to eye. Rather than enter an extended debate on every point I’ll stick to a few of them.
If the Labour party only won working class votes (even if they won every Working class vote) they would permanently be in opposition. Plus, the middle class contribute a lot to the country and to needlessly malign them shows a lack of compassion for hard working people who are just trying to get by.
But the I think the problem is we have different definitions of ‘middle class’ looking at what you subsequently say. Middle class doesn’t even start for me until you get to affluent Professional careers. It seem to start lower for you? Many are hard working and very well paid for it – but I don’t lack compassion for them, I simply want them to return proportionally more of what they earn to society than they do now.
The government should be there for EVERYONE not just single sections of society - otherwise we're no better than the tories.
Labour is on the centre-left
I agree entirely with Immortal Wombat on University by the way – far too many school leavers now go and it has turned Universities into degree factories not centres of learning. Employers have stopped trusting degree classifications - how can this be good?
Private money in schools is okay – but the back end deals securing it need examination I think.
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