@libdems4er
Campaigning for fair & equal votes in the UK. An affiliated organisation of the Liberal Democrats - the party leading the fight for PR for decades, but now with 72 MPs! We also work proactively cross-party & with like-minded others to deliver change.
@hinabokharild.bsky.social writes: "As a Liberal Democrat, I’ve always been a supporter of Proportional Representation. It’s one of the things that really unites our party because it gets to the heart of who actually gets to have a say in our democracy."
#MakeVotesMatter
Where is the new accountability for politicians? Where are the robust measures to really stamp out corruption and interference?
The Representation of the People Bill before Parliament needs to do far more to stamp out the scandals that have rocked our democracy. #LisaSmartMP #Westminster
... and thanks to First Past The Post, Farage could be Prime Minister on only 30% of the vote. We need electoral reform.
It’s time to end Britain’s first-past-the-post election lottery
“An electoral system should do two things: ensure that the majority rules and that significant minorities are adequately represented. First past the post achieves neither.”
#getPRdone
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Professor Vernon Bogdanor writes for @financialtimes.com
"An electoral system should do two things: ensure that the majority rules and that significant minorities are adequately represented.
First Past the Post achieves neither."
Time to scrap FPTP!
www.ft.com/content/38d8...
It will cause unnecessary chaos and destabilise politics.
It's too complicated, people wouldn't know how to vote.
It's not a priority right now.
Those were some of the arguments used over a century ago against giving women the vote. Sounds familiar?
💥 Professor Vernon Bogdanor writes for @financialtimes.com:
"An electoral system should do two things: ensure that the majority rules and that significant minorities are adequately represented.
First Past the Post achieves neither."
📑 In his speech about the Representation of the People Bill, @ollyglover.bsky.social quoted an open letter from 50+ academics, warning about the dangers of FPTP.
➡️ Read it here: www.politicshome.com/news/article...
During the Second Reading of the Representation of the People Bill, MP after MP got up to point out what's missing from it: fixing the voting system.
The problems with FPTP can no longer be ignored - and neither can the growing calls for PR. 📣
Here are just a few highlights:
OUT NOW: New research reveals the link between First-Past-the-Post and the rise of Reform UK.
Read our paper ‘Lifting the Lid on Britain’s Pressure-Cooker Politics’ by Stuart Donald.
🗳️The Representation of the People Bill strives to make fundamental changes to the voting system through electoral reform.
The Lib Dems have long called for proportional representation to restore faith in our political system and enhance the integrity of British democracy.
📝OUT NOW
In 2029, Reform UK could win on under 30% of the vote according to some polls. Our new research paper shows our voting system has a hand in this.
Read more & find out why electoral reform is not a nice-to-have, but an emergency.
#ukpolitics #PR #FPTP #VotingSystem
"Numerous MPs across parties called for a move to PR, or at least a National Commission on Electoral Reform, arguing FPTP is unfit for a multi-party political landscape.
@appgfairelections.bsky.social and Make Votes Matter are among those planning to keep up the fight."
@josiahmortimer.bsky.social
💬 Sarah Olney MP reminded the House that MPs had voted for her Proportional Representation Bill in December 2024.
❌ Inside and outside of Parliament, there is a growing acknowledgment that our voting system is not fit for purpose.
⏰ It's time to consider the alternatives.
Lots of MPs calling for proportional representation in the first debate on the democracy bill last night
Want to stop Farage with your vote? At the moment you can’t – and Starmer must fix that | Polly Toynbee
@ollyglover.bsky.social, the President of LDER, gives very compelling arguments for why #ProportionalRepresentation should be included in the Representation of the People Bill.
Time to scrap First-Past-The-Post!
"If we stick with First Past the Post under an increasingly fractured multi-party political landscape, we have a very real risk of the next general election results looking much like a random number generator."
Well said @rozsavage.bsky.social 👏👏👏
🧨“The Government’s refusal to look at Proportional Representation is dangerously short-sighted.”
Brendan O'Hara MP eloquently warns of the possibility that Reform may win majority power in 2029 on barely 30% of the vote if #FirstPastThePost stays.
#ElectoralReform #Democracy
📜 The House of Commons just debated the Representation of the People Bill
💥 Great to see more Labour MPs joining the call for a National Commission on Electoral Reform
📺 @patrickhurley.bsky.social @catsmithmp.bsky.social @chriscurtis94.bsky.social & @jamesnaish.bsky.social
🌹 #Labour4PR
🗳️"Our First Past the Post voting system was outdated decades ago, [it's] a millstone around the neck of our democratic life."
💬 Our Vice-Chair @lisasmartmp.bsky.social during last night's Second Reading debate of the Representation of the People Bill 👇
🚨 "Large groups of permanently unrepresented voters create fertile ground for anger and extremism."
🗯️ Powerful speech by @rozsavage.bsky.social about the dangers of sticking with FPTP in our current, fragmented and polarised reality.
👉 The Representation of the People Bill needs to address this.
You can also sign the petition asking Keir Starmer to scrap FPTP:
actionnetwork.org/petitions/th...
"If casting a vote starts to feel more like participating in a lottery than making a positive and principled decision, then voters are going to become ever more frustrated." First Past the Post needs to go - ask your MP to include it in the new Bill.
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/gort...
"And the next election under first past the post, if it stays anything like that, is just going to be chaotic... So we've got to bring in proportional representation."
Compass Director Neal Lawson on the need for PR on Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips on @skynewsrss.bsky.social.
"While votes at 16 is a genuinely historic step, how motivated will young voters feel when, for so many, their vote will almost certainly change nothing?
The most powerful thing we could do to engage all voters is to give them a system in which their votes actually matter."
Well said 👇
Faced with an electoral system that is turning British elections into a gamble with the country’s future, MPs are calling for a National Commission on Electoral Reform to examine the electoral system and recommend a modern alternative.
Today is the Second Reading of the Representation of the People Bill.
It's an important bill - it's just a shame it does nothing to change the voting system that leaves millions of people without representation 👀
We went to Westminster to speak to MPs about this. Our CEO Emma Harrison explains 👇
"If casting a vote starts to feel more like participating in a lottery than making a positive and principled decision, then voters are going to become ever more frustrated." First Past the Post can't handle multi-party politics. www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/gort...
"This Labour government can still build consensus for an alternative, but it must do so urgently.
We need a national commission on electoral reform"
✍️ Beccy Cooper MP & Tim Roca MP
#Democracy
@drbeccycoopermp.bsky.social @timrocamp.bsky.social @politics.co.uk
www.politics.co.uk/mp-comment/2...
