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The leadership sat on the fence, but nearly half of the parliamentary Labour Party actively campaigned with the Tories against electoral reform.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/dec/29/no-to-av-support-114-labour-mps
Amongst the names for No to AV / supporter of FPTP this name pops up: Rachel Reeves. Where have seen that before 🧐?
Not on the list, but Andy Burnham was Labour's election campaign coordinator at the time and played the critical role in getting Labour's party machinery to ignore the referendum (which is what allowed all these Labour MPs to freely campaign for FPTP).
So I've been very sceptical about his Damascene conversion to electoral reform now that he's in a job that has no influence over the matter...
Oh dear
Oh shit, you're right. Somehow I'd softened it in my head. I think we can see how this is going to go again. It's incredibly incredibly disheartening. We'll be trapped in tribal politics forever.