1. It is sometimes stated that a vote for anyone other than Labour is a vote for the Tories. If you are of this view, then maybe you need to spend just a few minutes to learn more about how the First Past The Post (FPTP) electoral system works. FPTP has a right-wing bias.

2. After appreciating more how the FPTP voting system works, it can be argued that voting Labour is a waste of time. In fact, it can be argued in the long-term that a vote for Labour under FPTP is actually a vote for the Tories.

3. British Politics is broken. Only if Labour commits to enter an Alliance with other parties, with a view towards implementing Proportional Representation, will voting Labour have any transformative effect on peoples' lives.

4. Here is a list of all the UK Labour Governments since 1900.
1924 (10 months)
1929-31
1945-51
1964-70
1974-79
1997-2010*
* It is sometimes acknowledged that the platform which Tony Blair secured an unprecedented 3 elections on the trot was only Labour in name.

5. To help understand why FPTP has such a right-wing bias, Labour MP and staunch Electoral Reform Campaigner @labourlewis has described FPTP as “like a game of monopoly where the Tories are always the banker”.

6. In another thread, you can read about New Zealand's experiences in using First Past The Post before 1993. https://twitter.com/LabourPartProb/status/1374103765465317379?s=20

7. The only current EU Country who don't use an electoral system based on Proportional Representation is France. For elections to the National Assembly and for the Presidency, a variation of FPTP is used called the two-round runoff system.

8. Recent French political events include the Yellow Vests Protests and the conviction of former President Nikolas Sarkozy for corruption. Two presidential elections over the last 20 years have seen the presence of far-right candidates in the final runoff round.

9. Here is a list of left-wing French Presidents since the birth of the 5th Republic in 1958.

Francois Mitterand 1981-1995
Francois Hollande 2012-2017

This is more evidence of Winner-Takes-All voting systems having a bias to the right.

10. Whilst France is currently performing better than the UK in terms of the Fragile States Index on political stability, considering the UK's current constitutional problems this is hardly a ringing endorsement of the French system.

11. Which countries have the best results on measures like income equality? Finland? Possibly yes. Sweden? Possibly yes. Denmark? Possibly yes. What do they all have in common? They all use Proportional Reprensentation.

12. Having read this thread, if you have any evidence-based arguments why voting Labour under FPTP is a positive vote without a commitment to scrap FPTP, then please post them. It would be very interesting indeed to read them.