We in GET PR DONE! are getting very tired of this situation. You may be fed up as well. The results come in from a general election. Many Conservative candidates become MPs again ---- especially in safe seats --- when the vote total of the centre and left candidates in numbers of constituencies may have been far greater overall.

This result is down to two things: a) our archaic First Past the Post (FPTP) voting system; b) the fact that so-called “progressive parties” fail to work together and hence Tory candidates slither into many Parliamentary seats unfairly.

The left-of-centre pressure group COMPASS has just announced a new campaign to try to tackle both problems. In about 60 constituencies, COMPASS will be working with other groups to organise a major tactical voting campaign to oust vulnerable sitting Tory MPs and candidates. Building a Commons majority among progressive parties would lead to a second goal: introducing a proportional representation (PR) voting system.

This is a goal that GET PR DONE! is happy to support. So on 12 January 2023 we invited Neal Lawson, executive director of Compass, to be our guest on at a public webinar on Zoom to tell us how WIN AS ONE will work and how you can join the effort.

Neal was interviewed by Katie Neame who is a senior reporter with Labour List, an online publication that reports Labour Party news 24/7.

Watch the video of this session on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Q7rBXC36tW4