This is why wealth taxes have become overwhelmingly popular with the public, UK millionaires, economists, and an increasing number of political parties. Plaid Cymru and the Greens have already made their support clear, while at Lib Dem conference last week Patriotic Millionaires led calls for wealth taxes while deputy leader Daisy Cooper backed taxes on bank profits.

And at Labour conference in Liverpool, where the government has gathered to discuss their situation, activists have never worked harder to make this issue unavoidable. Tax Justice UK camped outside the entrance asking people whether they side with billionaires or the people, Patriotic Millionaires have billboards across Liverpool demanding taxes on wealth not work, and Green New Deal Rising have politely chased government ministers around the docks asking them to support taxes on wealth.

Inside the conference, speakers have lined up to demand a wealth tax, including Unite head Sharon Graham, before a motion was passed asking the government to implement one. Conference motions aren't binding and this motion will be ignored as soundly as the motions on genocide in Gaza or proportional representation, but it shows how isolated the Prime Minister is when he calls us and others calling for wealth taxes "snake oil merchants" in his conference speech.

We should be very clear that wealth taxes are a first step. We need to make deep, structural change to the systems that allowed people to become this wealthy and powerful in the first place. But winning this argument will make everything afterwards easier, and it does indeed look like we're winning this argument.

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Should PR be a main goal for a fairer democracy, or should other things take a priority? You said:

• "I don't know, but I do know that the system we have now is not good enough. All those points in the lists above are valid and by looking at them I want to change from strongly to somewhat and whilst my views are towards the left I think that coalition government building is a way of pulling people together."
  
  
• "Yes, definitely! PR first, thus enabling truly representative priorities."
  
  
• "Difficult question at this time when there is so much wrong with this country that needs fixing. On the whole I would say yes, as we need to have a government that looks at the state of everything, our NHS, our utilities, the state of our older generation, the care services etc etc. and is prepared to stand firm on policies that may not suite the better off."
  
  

• "I would put PR high on the priority list together with climate change / environmental issues and closer ties with the EU."
  
  

• "FPTP is becoming ever more undemocratic as the number of parties increases. Making an all-or-nothing bet for a preferred candidate or against an unwanted one every four or five years does not make me feel properly represented. I'm not in favour of voting for parties, which then fill vacancies from their list when they win, but would like a preference voting system, where the winner has to get over 50% of the votes once preferences are taken into account, if necessary."
  
  
• "PR is the first but necessary step towards achieving a fairer democracy because without it we shall continue to have governments elected with minority support. After that there are several more steps that should be taken for a fairer system."