The Progressive Alliance and Why it Will Change Nothing

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Published on December 30, 2021 11:39:33 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYSzof9aW1Q

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As you all demanded (okay, some of you voted in the poll), so here it is! I'd been thinking about the Progressive Alliance quite a bit as it's quite a commonly recurring piece of discourse and one that's always kind of tedious and based on a few obvious flaws. People will also often make reference to electoral alliances in other countries, such as Turkey, Israel and Hungary, while making comparisons between a potential UK Progressive Alliance and the kind of confidence and supply/coalition agreements led by social democratic parties in Europe. As we'll see that's not really something you can do at the same time.

In this video, you should come away with: an understanding of what Progressive Alliances are in the context of the UK, why some people (and which people) really seem to want them, how they've worked in practice in other countries (and in one case a progressive alliance that existed at the 2019 election), why it (probably) wont happen, wont work and is bad.

There's going to be a lot of voiceovers for this, with a bigger group contributing than usual, just for you all before the New Year. So enjoy the many sultry tones to make up for the fact that I was ill (not the dreaded illness) during recording. My voice was a bit rough and I look a lot worse than usual (if that's even possible), but please, enjoy it, like and subscribe and look forward to my next video in January.

Belated Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Mic's Newsletter on Martin Bell: https://brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-white-suit-delusion-a-childish

I want to thank my proofreaders, my partner and Mic Wright, who once again did a voiceover for me this video. The other voiceovers were provided by: Tim, David from Praxiscast, Sly, Jack from Reel Politik, Jordan from Comradio, MrGump, Aarjan from Left/Over And John.

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