Nicholas Whyte
Northern Ireland: The Forgotten Election
As pundits speculate wildly about the scale of the coming Labour landslide and Conservative collapse in England, Scotland and Wales next Thursday, let’s remember that 18 of the 650 seats in the House of Commons are elected by voters in Northern Ireland....

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Northern Ireland: The Forgotten Election

As pundits speculate wildly about the scale of the coming Labour landslide and Conservative collapse in England, Scotland and Wales next Thursday, let’s remember that 18 of the 650 seats in the Hou…

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Jul 2, 2024 at 8:05amWeb
Show threadex or current IDF unwelcomeJul 2, 2024
@nwhyte But some when elected will have no vote in the House of Commons or on Committees
Show threadSteve LoughranJul 2, 2024
@nwhyte really ought to be time for the unionists to be pushing for proportional representation in general elections. It’s just probably very hard for the leaders of those parties to accept that the NI of 2024 is not the Ulster of 1921 -and never will be again
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Show threadNicholas WhyteJul 2, 2024
@stevel Doesn't matter. The botched 2011 referendum killed electoral reform in the UK for at least a generation.
Show threadBraggJul 2, 2024

@stevel @nwhyte why should they want PR? NI parties got 4.8% of MP’s from 2.2% of the vote.

I’m in favour of PR (specifically STV) but I’m not sure it’ll particularly do NI parties any good.

Show threadSteve LoughranJul 2, 2024
@JMBragg @nwhyte i was thinking the more the unionist votes get diluted, the more they’d want their votes across the entire country added up