One Party State?

Following their disastrous election performance, the Labour Party is showing every sign of not learning the lessons of its comprehensive defeat. Everybody else it appears is wrong. Some are even claiming they won the argument.

This has serious implications for our democracy. If Labour will not reform in the ways needed to become both a credible opposition and a potential future governing party, then will the Liberal Democrats or somebody else be able to step into this role?

Unless somebody takes up the mantle, providing a progressive but electable alternative, we face being a one party, Conservative, state for the foreseeable future.