Representation of the People Bill

"The government wants to clamp down on foreign money being donated to our political parties.

But they are refusing to act on unlimited donations from UK rich individuals and companies."

Unlock Democracy letter to the Bill Committee

https://unlockdemocracy.org.uk/donation-cap-letter-to-committee

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Our letter to the Bill Committee — Unlock Democracy

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#Petition #Lords #Mandelson

via #UnlockDemocracy

Despite more revelations about his links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Mandelson can't be stripped of his peerage

The PM is calling on the House of Lords to modernise its rules to change this

But given the Lords’ attitude to reforming itself, we’re not going to hold our breath

The PM must take the lead & start FULL SCALE reform of the Lords.

Tinkering around with the disciplinary rules is not enough

https://secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/185845/petition/1

This must trigger a rethink

This latest Lord Mandelson controversy must trigger a full rethink on the House of Lords. We need a second chamber where the public decides who stays and who goes. Please sign the petition.

Unlock Democracy

First Past The Post voting has had its day.

Elections should grant everyone a vote that matters, but ours deprive most of us of a representative of our choosing.

With 5 parties polling strongly, our voting system is delivering chaos and turning elections into a lottery - where few people get what they want. It simply can't cope with the multi-party politics we have in the UK.

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/2025-les-pr

#UKpol #ElectoralReform #Elections #FPTP #ProportionalRepresenation #UnlockDemocracy #MakeVotesMatter

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Join the demand for a democracy that really represents us

A representative democracy must broadly reflect the interests and attitudes of its people. The outcome of Thursday's election has stretched the critical idea that we live in such a democracy to breaking point. Under the First Past the Post system, the governing party were awarded 63 percent of seats on only 33.8 percent of the votes cast. At the same time the 42.3 % of voters who voted for parties other than the 2 major parties were only granted 17.2 % of the seats. Because the most distorted election outcomes in history it will both damage people's trust in politics further and struggle to deliver the long term, strong and stable government the country needs. To change society we must change the system. If politicians are serious about addressing the crisis of trust in politics, this must be the last election distorted by First Past the Post.

@countcol This is a really dire reflection on the UK constitution. With essentially no change in support a party goes from opposing to governing with a large majority. This is a sort of constitutional worst case simulation of the consequences of the first past the post system that has become real. #unlockdemocracy
BBC says Labour increased its share of the vote by 2%. See https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd1xnzlzz99o
& image. If the incumbent government was "rightly" punished at the polls in a landslide tsunami thrashing & yet the winner's share went up only 2%, what is the actual message about whether the Brits are pro-Labour ? No 2nd source to confirm. In a rational system would there be a red-yellow coalition? Is the UK doomed to flip blue-red for ever like some sort of odd traffic light on the blink? #unlockdemocracy
Labour set for general election landslide, according to exit poll

Sir Keir Starmer is on course to be the next prime minister, as the Tories look set for their biggest defeat.

BBC News