Good explainer about why the United Kingdom should probably drop their existing way of electing governments and switch to a fairer system; proportional representation.

https://nebula.tv/videos/tldrnewsuk-the-uks-new-multiparty-politics-explained/

#uk #ukpol #makevotesmatter #fptp #proportionalrepresentation #politics #nebula #labourparty #ukgovernment

Will #Burnham drive #PR?

I am v wary of #AndyBurnham. He seems likely to merely slow the decline of the deeply rotten #LabourParty, whose death is long overdue.

But a Burnham regime could be transforming IF it ensures that #FPTP is abolished at all elections. That would stop ReformUK taking power either nationally or locally, and give a chance for new politics to emerge.

But it would need to be done fast, zealously, with no referendum. Does Burnham have the steel to do that?

#ukpol

https://medium.com/@michaelmckee497/first-past-the-post-is-failing-montgomery-2bc2bd1218e5

A blog post I wrote on how #FPTP isn't playing nice with the trend towards nationalization of #politics in the #USA in races at the state and local level, specifically in #MontgomeryCounty #Maryland . Why? Well, primaries have more than two candidates, and as the number of viable candidates goes up, the likelihood of randomness and deliberate vote splitting goes up. If general elections don't matter because voters don't cross parties, this is a bigger deal.

#voting

I was really hoping #UKLabour would have time to scrap #FPTP before they committed hara-kiri.

I don't see a potential replacement for Starmer who looks like a safer bet that I would vote for. What they need is to play as a team and stop Starmer announcing daft ideas before they've all thought them through. It's not strong leadership to make mistakes on your own. If they were collective mistakes then they may as well go now and let Honest Nige finish us off.

"The SNP, Reform, Plaid Cymru, the Greens, and even to some extent the Liberal Democrats have won big because they aren’t seen as Westminster parties.

There are two potential responses to that. We can either turn up our noses at those people, moan about their lack of trust in the system and talk smugly about how to rebuild it, or we can accept they are correct"

#FPTP #PR #UKPolitics

Westminster’s two-party system in crisis as Reform and Greens surge
https://www.opendemocracy.net/election-crisis-westminster-reform-greens-labour-conservative-scotland-wales-two-party-system-finished/