Quote Originally Posted by Montmorency View Post
Brexit isn't an existential threat, but public ownership of railways is?



What has Labour done, what power has it used to do it, and what are they preventing from being done now?

From a quick search, UK politicians are not directly responsible for districting in the first place, and:

2001 paper on UK apportionment having always been biased in connection to the political geography, Tories benefiting from "cracked" districts with small majorities, and Labour from "stacked" districts with large majorities (the paper argues Labour triumphed in 1997 because factors like targeted campaigning and strategic voting broke the ceiling of safe majorities in cracked Tory districts)
More recent article on Conservative gerrymandering policies (though I would understand this as closer to voter suppression, not gerrymandering)

Sounds like UK districting committees haven't heard of the "efficiency gap", but it's not clear to me that there is actually any active political gerrymandering going on in the UK as opposed to other techniques of electoral advantage-seeking. Also, FPTP is always a wrecker. A system where this can happen:



is real dumb.

Can you give your sources on UK gerrymandering?



It's really the Right.
Quote Originally Posted by a completely inoffensive name View Post
I don't know how you can walk away from the policies presented by the two sides and think that the 'left' is just as bad as the right.
I respectfully submit that there is nothing that resembles an organised and politically effective Left in the US at present.

If you want to see what dangers the Left presents... well... The Labour Party is currently being investigated by the Equality and Human Rights commission over accusations of an endemic culture of Antisemitism.