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Blake Hamilton 2h ago

First-Past-The-Post Fail League❗️
United Kingdom—England Edition 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🗳️!

Today’s champion:

Neil Duncan-Jordan
MP for Poole

Won with only 31.8% of total voter ballots cast

Multi-Member #ProportionalRepresentation please! Like and share if you agree!
#UKPolitics

Richard Michael Blaber 23h ago

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/john-healey-quits-defence-secretary-starmer-b2994020.html?lid=gd437urmvqz3&utm_medium=email&utm_source=braze&utm_campaign=Morning%20Headlines%20Newsletter%2012-06-2026&utm_term=IND_Headlines_Masterlist_CDP&empar=d05890695c3bf72b24c4cee29f3c758897f834bb104b9715c1c6f867c77393ae. The fuss that's being made over 0.32% of #GDP in the next #Parliament in 4 years' time is astonishing, & assumes - falsely - that #Labour will still be in power in 2030 to determine the level of #defence #spending, when, at the rate things are going, it's far more likely to be #ReformUK, God help us. Of course, if #proportionalrepresentation was to be introduced & implemented in time for the next #GeneralElection, that would be FAR less likely!

Keir Starmer faces endgame as John Healey and Al Carns resign over defence spending plans

Kemi Badenoch says Sir Keir’s premiership is ‘falling apart’ with one week still to go in crucial by-election

The Independent

Blake Hamilton 1d ago

First-Past-The-Post Fail League❗️
United Kingdom—England Edition 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🗳️!

Today’s champion:

Helen Whately
MP for Faversham and Mid Kent

Won with only 31.8% of total voter ballots cast

Multi-Member #ProportionalRepresentation please! Like and share if you agree!
#UKPolitics

Michael McKee 1d ago

https://jacobin.com/2026/06/authoritarianism-democratization-constitution-elites-state

I'm glad this includes proportional representation, even if it's in the form of Ranked-Choice proportional, rather than open list. I also agree that congress should have the ability to overturn Supreme Court rulings with a vote without requiring a signature from the president. I'm not sure whether I think this should apply to all rulings, or only rulings not explicitly based on constitutional grounds.

#proportionalrepresentation #supremecourt #jacobin #government

How to Democratize the United States

Donald Trump’s authoritarianism has been enabled by long-standing antidemocratic features of the US state — the same features that have time and again blocked pro-worker policies. The Left needs a serious program aimed at democratizing our political system.

Blake Hamilton 2d ago

First-Past-The-Post Fail League❗️
United Kingdom—England Edition 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🗳️!

Today’s champion:

Jenny Riddell-Carpenter
MP for Suffolk Coastal

Won with only 31.7% of total voter ballots cast

Multi-Member #ProportionalRepresentation please! Like and share if you agree!
#UKPolitics

Blake Hamilton 3d ago

First-Past-The-Post Fail League❗️
United Kingdom—England Edition 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🗳️!

Today’s champion:

Martin Wrigley
MP for Newton Abbot

Won with only 31.7% of total voter ballots cast

Multi-Member #ProportionalRepresentation please! Like and share if you agree!
#UKPolitics

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Claire McNab 3d ago

@ChrisMayLA6 Sadly, political debate in Britain is stuck on the broad category of #ProportionalRepresentation (PR). This mostly means #dHondt or the #AdditionalMemberSystem (#AMS).

#SingleTransferableVote (STV) is used in Scottish local elections, and in Northern Ireland. #STV is vastly better PR, 'cos it facilitates new entrants, removes tactical voting, and disempowers parties. Ideal for our times, and invented by a Brit: Thomas Hare.

And STV has been used for the House of Commons.

Blake Hamilton 4d ago

First-Past-The-Post Fail League❗️
United Kingdom—England Edition 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🗳️!

Today’s champion:

Oliver Ryan
MP for Burnley

Won with only 31.7% of total voter ballots cast

Multi-Member #ProportionalRepresentation please! Like and share if you agree!
#UKPolitics