Many will argue the huge number of recent PMs is down to the #Tory party being the Nasty party…rather than it being a #FPTP problem.
But how democratic was the handover between Blair and Brown?
Do you honestly think with #Starmer tanking support for the #Labour party by being Tory Lite and sucking up to Trump and Netanyahu, he will still be PM at the next election? Seriously???
@fairvote.ca To be healthy, one must often make unpleasant choices: exercise instead of screens, vegetables instead of candy. If one is seriously sick, the cure is often unpleasant: radiology comes to mind.
Similarly, governments ought to be able to pass unpopular laws, and then be judged on them a few years later. That #FPTP tends to have governments that can do so is a point in its favour.
@admin @CStamp @mastodonmigration @cynblogger @mwyman @gedvondur
So we live in an #FPTP voting system
Are you familiar with #DuvergersLaw?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law
We should have a better voting system, but we don't
So 3rd party just divides the left and guarantees more #MAGA wins
Therefore, taking over the #Democrats is the only path forward, acknowledging all of your concerns and many more you didn't write: they don't change the equation
And they are extremely weak now
Now is the time
“When will Labour have the guts to fix it?”
Never.
Because while FPTP means they can spend years out of power, they like the other side of the coin, by which they can spend years in total power. Just like the Tories.
And I doubt Fartage will scare them into PR.
#Labour #ElectoralReform #FirstPastThePost #ProportionalRepresentation #FPTP #PR
@JackTheCat They won't. Neither will the fascists. It suits whoever is in power to maintain the status quo. #FPTP got them there despite the fact it's corrupt, undemocratic and NFFP . Out of power 'they' look for any wrinkle. Remember #LINO promised a review and change to the electoral system in their last manifesto. Now? "too many other pressing issues"...my rse!
No More First Past the Post Elections
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/2025-les-pr?source=Mastodon
First Past The Post voting has had its day.
Elections should grant everyone a vote that matters, but ours deprive most of us of a representative of our choosing.
With 5 parties polling strongly, our voting system is delivering chaos and turning elections into a lottery - where few people get what they want. It simply can't cope with the multi-party politics we have in the UK.
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/2025-les-pr
#UKpol #ElectoralReform #Elections #FPTP #ProportionalRepresenation #UnlockDemocracy #MakeVotesMatter
@ChrisMayLA6 Broadening the franchise is pointless without replacing the discredited #FPTP system with PR.
@RollingStone @all-news-RollingStone
Mathematically, in a #FPtP system, they are just as much to blame for this mess as the #fascists.
Unlock Democracy: There's lots to celebrate in the Government's elections strategy, but we want to push them to go further to protect our democracy. Please sign our letter.
https://secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/174747/donate/1?locale=en-GB&en_chan=bs
#democracy #elections #PR #ProportionalRepresentation #FPTP #ElectionsBill
@cpereira @FairVoteIL I think approval voting should be tried but both this method and #RCV are better than #FPTP
Labour have scrapped First Past the Post for some local elections - this shift is a direct result of people speaking out and demanding fair votes. Can you join us and sign this petition calling for Proportional Representation for all elections so every vote counts equally every time? It only takes a sec: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/2025-les-pr?source=washarer #FPTP
I should be packed and on my way to #GothsOnAField right now, but my brain wouldn't let me go until I wrote some code.
This is the start of a piece of work to demonstrate visually the value of preferential voting systems such as #AV over #FPTP. There will be a companion piece to demonstrate the value of #PR systems.
https://codeberg.org/diffrentcolours/whyprefvote
The long term goal is an actual grassroots movement for #VotingReform in the UK, separate from political parties.
But for now I've written enough that I can go hang out in a barn and watch #Goth #LiveMusic for a weekend.
The British Columbia Special Committee on Democratic and Electoral Reform is asking for submissions. If you feel strongly about election reform in BC then tell them!
"If #KeirStarmer really wants to counter #Reform, he needs to change an #electoralprocess that punishes parties for having broad appeal. It’s the single biggest change he can make as #primeminister that will stop the #hardright seizing power
Here is the single thing #Labour can do to see off Reform and make #Britishpolitics work | Will Hayward | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/27/labour-reform-uk-british-politics-nigel-farage
#Fptp
#PR
#firstpastthepost
#proportionalrepresentation
#UKpol
#UKpolitics
#electoralreform
I can't resist, time for another Ben #voting rant:
"Nearly a quarter of #NYC’s early voters were new #Democratic #primary participants"
So #Mamdani's chances of winning today is propelled by people showing the fuck up
If he wins he moves us toward remaking the #Democrats further #left
nonAmericans/ naive people:
In the stupid American #FPTP voting system 3rd party only divides the left. Duverger's Law
So we have to remake the dems, this is our only way forward
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