Part VI - A way out for Scotland?

Scope: compares whether a Labour-led UK or an Indy Scotland would be more likely  to provide a PR future

Summary

  • Labour’s fear of losing soft votes to the Tories means it simply cannot offer or do the very basic progressive things fundamental to improving fairness in the UK:

    ditch FPTP and replace with PR

increase spending to European average to tackle inequality; and

take the UK back into the EU

  • Meanwhile Scotland has a functioning PR system, now ¼ century old, which would allow a bolder ambition to tackle inequality and is committed to an EU future

Conclusion

  • With the UK unable to escape FPTP and its increasingly unequal outcomes, unlocking Scotland’s PR maturity through Independence might become the deciding factor in settling its constitutional debate