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
