How we can smash Britain’s two-party system for good at the next election | George Monbiot

The breaches of trust have been so frequent, so vast and so decisive that the voters Labour has already lost are unlikely to return. Because these are Tory cruelties, delivered by a party that claimed to be the only alternative, in our first-past-the-post electoral system. Labour has succumbed, quickly and hard, to the defining sickness of our undemocratic political system: the sofa cabinet system of close advisers. The thinktank was hoping to mobilise the progressive majority around a revitalised Labour party, but that moment has passed. It will be a tragedy if, as seems likely, Keir Starmer has destroyed the Labour party as a major political force.