George Monbiot on Nostr: I'm glad Andy Burnham is committed to Proportional Representation. But he shouldn't ...
I'm glad Andy Burnham is committed to Proportional Representation. But he shouldn't stop at this commendable 19th Century proposal. Many brilliant democratic innovations have been proposed since then, but none adopted. In many ways we're stuck in the era of quill pens and powdered wigs.
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