Oioioi, @Mickft. Go easy, Mick.

Nothing I wrote is "untrue", let alone "simply untrue".

I didn't say #LibDem policy had changed. I said they seemed uninterested in STV. I stand by that. Big difference between manifesto mention and campaign headline.

In the 1980s theAlliance / #LibDems campaigned heavily on electoral reform. They had #JohnCleese do a good video on #STV: https://youtu.be/0qWDPauV_p4.

Nothing like that in the 2020s. Little mention since the #FibDem #AV defeat in 2011.

@ChrisMayLA6

@ChrisMayLA6 #LibDems were in coslition with Scittish Labour 1999–2007, and got #STV for Scittish local elections.

But LibDems were later almost wiped out in Wales. So when #PlaidCyrmu and #WelshLabour agreed to abandon #AMS for the #Senedd, there was no strong LibDem voice for STV. The Senedd is now #dHondt only.

2024 showed how #FPTP is clearly broken in Westminster elections. Labour's ⅔ of seats on ⅓ of votes was so obscene that there should have been huge, destructive riots.

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@ChrisMayLA6 #STV was used for the Commons university constituencies, from 1918 to 1950. The last STV election to the Commons was the Combined Scottish Universities by-election in November 1946.

For decades thereafter, the Liberal Party and it's successors the #LibDems championed STV. But their enthusiasm lapsed after the disastrous #AV referendum in 2011. Now in a fragmented landscape, LibDems are slight beneficiaries of #FPTP, and seem uninterested in electoral reform.

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The #Senedd 2026 vote breakdown by age is stunning.

75% of the under-30 voters chose #PlaidCymru or the Greens. 75%! Three out of four!

Between them, the #LabourParty, #LibDems and #ConservativeParty got only ~10% of the under-30 votes.

If only under-30s had voted, the Senedd would have had no Labour MS, no Conservative MS, and no LibDem MS. It would have been a wipeout

#WelshPol #Cymru