I believe that a future Reform government or Reform/Conservative coalition could be the end of democracy in the UK. We have seen how Trump in the USA has undermined democracy and legal processes. He has done that despite a constitution which had strict rules protecting it from change and a bill of rights.

The UK is much more vulnerable. Despite claims that our mishmash of constitutional law, tradition, and precedent is a constitution it can all be changed by a party with a majority. The second house can delay, but not prevent this. We have seen how by simply legislating parties can change the composition of the second house, change rules about the time between elections. We know that they could simply abolish rights law and leave the European court of human rights.

One way of making it much less likely that extremists will get into power is the introduction of Proportional Representation. In addition to this PR has a number of other advantages which I won't go into here, and better represents the will of the people. Keir Starmer appears to have supported this in the past but now goes against it. Like many people I have been unhappy about the current Labour party and their move to the right.

I have thought long and hard about whether to remain in Labour and try to change from within or switch to a party that supports electoral reform. Partly because there may not be another chance if democracy ends, I have decided to stay in the party and join the Labour Campaign for Electoral Reform.

I urge other Labour members to do the same, and for everyone to write to their MPs. If not we could be joining Putin and Trump on the wrong side of history.

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