The election looms and the polls stay locked. No one yet looks set to win an outright majority. So how are progressives supposed to vote? So many questions abound – do we vote with our head or our heart, for what we most want or against what we least want? Our wretched and totally out of date electoral system orces these horrendous private dilemmas on each of us. It demands collective debate.
Back in 2010 it was a lot easier. Voting to keep the Tories out was the order of the day and that meant by and large voting Labour or in some seats Liberal Democrat. But the formation of the Coalition and the further fragmentation of party politics muddies the water a lot.
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