We can break two-party cycle

Gloucester Citizen and Gloucestershire Echo, 13 June 2024, p. 20

Increasing numbers of voters are realising that the current electoral system is captured and utterly corrupt.

Counterintuitively, the two main parties, Conservative and Labour, share a common vested interest in continuing to ensure that they have the system stitched up between them.

In their Faustian pact, each party is prepared to accept that it will sometimes be out of power, as a small price to pay for knowing there are only two parties that can ever gain political power – and theirs is one of them.

We could derive some solace from this situation If there existed any substantial difference between Labour and Conservative; but there demonstrably isn’t – with Labour bending over itself to sound as conservative as possible, and the Tories commonly attracting the ‘blue Marxist’ descriptor.

On the issues that really matter, like the Covid outrage and the war-mongering towards the next world war, you can’t get a cigarette paper between them.

But we are far from helpless. What true democrats – whether left, right or centrist – can do is to vote for ANY party other than Conservative and Labour.

If enough of us do this, we can break the collusive Uni-party system and its stranglehold over our democracy, that all true democrats rightly despise.

Let’s make a start on July 4 – by voting for any party other than Conservative or Labour.

Dr Richard House

Stroud, Gloucestershire

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