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It's almost as if neither of the parties that will win through FPTP (first past the post) care about the people, and care more for satisfying the rich.
Due to FPTP, I can only vote labour as for my views they're the slightly lesser of two terrible parties.
At the same time, neither of the parties that benefit from FPTP will think about changing it and even if they did most of the population would fall for the propaganda machine anyway (see Brexit and decades of awful Tory government / the nonsense that the right are spewing out but gaining popularity)
I'm telling you, that kind of level of governmental reform is only possible by some great tumultuous event, like, for example, the houses of parliament burning completely to the ground.
It wouldn't take much, the place is a tinderbox. For arguments sake, if a crowd thousands strong surrounded the place and were all throwing fireworks at it, they couldn't arrest everyone.
There are better ways, but the points still stand.
If Labour wants to stay in power for the next election, they sure as hell better bring about proportional representation, because with the rise of the everything right now, this might be it for them