Mastodawn

@Tattered And Burnham lied about PR.

He claims that #AlternativeVote / #SupplementaryVote is a firm of proportional representation. Nonsense! AV is not proportional. Political scientists agree about that.

This is such basic stuff that only an eejit would make the error. Or a liar.

I go with the latter option.

Claire McNab 1d ago

#AndyBurnham does NOT support #ProportionalRepresentation #PR. 😡

Burnham supports #SupplementaryVote, also known as #AlternativeVote #AV, which is NOT a proportional system

And he will NOT scrap the current #FirstPastThePost #FPTP before the next general election #GE2029. So #ReformUK could win a huge overall majority on 30% of votes.

That makes a vote for #Burnham pointiess. He's a #Blairite who won't even introduce fair votes. 😡

There's no point to Burnham. Reject him, #Makerfield!

#ukpol

Police State UK May 4, 2024

“I was forced to vote Labour.”

Byline Times readers on not being able to vote for their preferred candidate.

#FPTP #SupplementaryVote #UKpolitics

https://bylinetimes.com/2024/05/03/undemocratic-and-possible-gerrymandering-voters-express-anger-after-first-past-the-post-introduced-for-mayoral-and-pcc-elections/

'Undemocratic' and Possible 'Gerrymandering': Voters Express Anger After First Past the Post Introduced for Mayoral and PCC Elections

The change to First Past the Post is expected to benefit Conservatives like Susan Hall, who might win fewer second preference votes than Labour

Byline Times

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Hughster Nov 29, 2022

All to tackle the huge, urgent crisis of… "just 171 allegations of in-person voter fraud at a polling station from 2014 to 2019 of which only three led to a conviction".

Transparent #VoterSuppression. Combined with scrapping the #SupplementaryVote for #MayoralElections (purely to try to split the anti-Tory vote and prevent Tory candidates losing on second preferences), one of the most transparent attacks on the democratic process I've seen from any government in my lifetime.