Only two things are missing: ban #EVM and #FPTP. With approval voting, the 5th point is not required. Elections automatically become nonpartisan. #CJP #CockroachJantaParty cockroachjantaparty.org
#FPTP Please change to #ApprovalVoting to stop vote splitting.
github.com/silicology/e... BJP got just 38% of the votes in the last Lok Sabha election. The problem is the #FPTP system, but no party wants to solve the voting method problem — including the satirical Cockroach Janta Party.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/21/greens-select-nurse-chris-kennedy-makerfield-byelection-candidate. I wish Chris Kennedy well. It would be a shame if @thegreenparty pulled its punches in #Makerfield because of fear of being accused of aiding & abetting #Reform by #Labour & the #media, @ZackPolanski. Labour tried that in Gorton & Denton, & finished third. Is Andy #Burnham, supposedly committed to introducing #PR, REALLY going to take advantage of the #FPTP system to make that case, & frighten #progressive #voters into voting for him?
Greens select nurse and ‘committed local campaigner’ as Makerfield byelection candidate

Chris Kennedy chosen amid reports Greens do not want to be blamed for splitting progressive vote and allowing Reform to win

The Guardian

#Scottish Labour MPs call to review #Westminster #election system

Proposal would commit #UK Government to review first-past-the-post ( #FPTP ) system & make recommendations within a year on reforms

The amendment to the Representation of the People Bill says experts & public should have their say on creating system which is “fair, representative, & capable of sustaining public confidence in democratic outcomes”

https://www.thenational.scot/news/26125997.scottish-labour-mps-back-call-review-westminster-election-system/

#FairVotes #ProportionalRepresentation #votes

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/20/burnham-to-back-shabana-mahmoods-immigration-changes-allies-say. So, #Burnham wants to pursue the same failed #strategy that got #Labour nowhere in the Gorton & Denton by-election, does he? When will the #LabourParty learn? Trimming further & further to the #Right in a pathetic attempt to appeal to #ReformUK #voters doesn't work! All it succeeds in doing is alienating the #Left, who will now vote for @thegreenparty, & SHOULD do! Labour can't rely on #progressives voting for them under #FPTP to keep #Reform out.
Burnham to back Shabana Mahmood’s immigration changes, allies say

Exclusive: Greater Manchester mayor understood to support home secretary’s push to limit legal and illegal migration

The Guardian
@gwynnion You can have faith in the (election) system as long as it’s not based on #FPTP voting system. That one is IMO always one step away from not being a democracy at all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting (and is barely a mimic (see D&D mimics) of a democracy in the first place)
First-past-the-post voting - Wikipedia

#BBCNews - More than 60 Labour MPs call for review of UK voting system
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgpzp87p11o
#FPTP
More than 60 Labour MPs call for review of UK voting system

The MPs say the current first-past-the-post system for general elections is "broken".

BBC News

Unite Majority; Build a Better #Britain

Our outdated political system betrays us

The majority are encouraged to fight each other, splitting votes, clearing a path for #extremists to win with little public backing

Once they win, they have unchecked power to attack & dismantle democratic institutions & values we hold dear

It’s a better Britain. A country that stands for unity, against #hatred & #division

https://actionnetwork.org/forms/unite-the-progressive-majority-to-build-a-better-britain?source=mastodon_fediverse

#elections #PR #vote #ProportionalRepresentation #FPTP