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KB<p>“When will Labour have the guts to fix it?”</p><p>Never.</p><p>Because while FPTP means they can spend years out of power, they like the other side of the coin, by which they can spend years in total power. Just like the Tories.</p><p>And I doubt Fartage will scare them into PR.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/22/britain-electoral-system-tories-labour-first-past-the-post" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2025/jul/22/britain-electoral-system-tories-labour-first-past-the-post</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ElectoralReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElectoralReform</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/FirstPastThePost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPastThePost</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ProportionalRepresentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProportionalRepresentation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/FPTP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FPTP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/PR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PR</span></a></p>
staringatclouds<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Petition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Petition</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FPTP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FPTP</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> </p><p>No More First Past the Post Elections</p><p><a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/2025-les-pr?source=Mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">actionnetwork.org/petitions/20</span><span class="invisible">25-les-pr?source=Mastodon</span></a></p>
Ollie 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦<p><strong>First Past The Post voting has had its day.</strong></p><p><em>Elections should grant everyone a vote that matters, but ours deprive most of us of a representative of our choosing.</em></p><p><em>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.</em></p><p><a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/2025-les-pr" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">actionnetwork.org/petitions/20</span><span class="invisible">25-les-pr</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/UKpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKpol</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/ElectoralReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElectoralReform</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Elections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Elections</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/FPTP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FPTP</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/ProportionalRepresenation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProportionalRepresenation</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/UnlockDemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnlockDemocracy</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/MakeVotesMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MakeVotesMatter</span></a></p>
Steve Woods<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ChrisMayLA6</span></a></span> Broadening the franchise is pointless without replacing the discredited <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/FPTP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FPTP</span></a> system with PR.</p>
John Chapman<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@Geri" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Geri</span></a></span> which just goes to show how spectacularly bad <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/FPTP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FPTP</span></a> is.</p>
John Chapman<p>Labour have scrapped First Past the Post for some local elections - this shift is a direct result of people speaking out and demanding fair votes. Can you join us and sign this petition calling for Proportional Representation for all elections so every vote counts equally every time? It only takes a sec: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/2025-les-pr?source=washarer" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">actionnetwork.org/petitions/20</span><span class="invisible">25-les-pr?source=washarer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/FPTP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FPTP</span></a></p>
Adam Jacobs 🇺🇦UK Politics
Nico198X<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@tinker" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>tinker</span></a></span> i prefer <a href="https://gamepad.club/tags/Approval" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Approval</span></a> <a href="https://gamepad.club/tags/voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>voting</span></a> but <a href="https://gamepad.club/tags/RCV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RCV</span></a> / <a href="https://gamepad.club/tags/IRV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IRV</span></a> is still better than <a href="https://gamepad.club/tags/FPTP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FPTP</span></a></p>
Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p>I can't resist, time for another Ben <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>voting</span></a> rant:</p><p><a href="https://gothamist.com/news/nearly-a-quarter-of-nycs-early-voters-hadnt-voted-in-a-democratic-primary-since-2012" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gothamist.com/news/nearly-a-qu</span><span class="invisible">arter-of-nycs-early-voters-hadnt-voted-in-a-democratic-primary-since-2012</span></a></p><p>"Nearly a quarter of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NYC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NYC</span></a>’s early voters were new <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democratic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democratic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/primary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>primary</span></a> participants"</p><p>So <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mamdani" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mamdani</span></a>'s chances of winning today is propelled by people showing the fuck up</p><p>If he wins he moves us toward remaking the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democrats</span></a> further <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/left" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>left</span></a></p><p>nonAmericans/ naive people:</p><p>In the stupid American <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FPTP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FPTP</span></a> voting system 3rd party only divides the left. Duverger's Law</p><p>So we have to remake the dems, this is our only way forward</p><p>1/x</p>
sleepy62🍁🛠️ 🖥️ 🔬 🌞<p>"Make Canada's voting system fair and proportional!"</p><p>Sign the petition</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cdnpoli</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/fptp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fptp</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/ProportionalRepresenttion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProportionalRepresenttion</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/CanPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CanPoli</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://you.leadnow.ca/petitions/prime-minister-mark-carney-deliver-proportional-representation-for-canada" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">you.leadnow.ca/petitions/prime</span><span class="invisible">-minister-mark-carney-deliver-proportional-representation-for-canada</span></a></p>
the roamerUKpol: George Monbiot on the endof Labour
Sieva 🚴🚇🏙️🌹<p>If you'd like to speak in support of proportional representation in British Columbia, apply here by May 29:</p><p><a href="https://consultation-portal.leg.bc.ca/consultations/43" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">consultation-portal.leg.bc.ca/</span><span class="invisible">consultations/43</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/BC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BC</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/BCPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BCPoli</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/ProportionalReptesentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProportionalReptesentation</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/FPTP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FPTP</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/FairVote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FairVote</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/ElectoralReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElectoralReform</span></a></p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>But still Labour won't give us PR, they want to lose to ReformUK, don't they? </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PR</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FPTP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FPTP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKPOL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOLITICS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKPOLITICS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ReformUK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReformUK</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElectoralReformSociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElectoralReformSociety</span></a></p>
GeofCox<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@RichardJMurphy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>RichardJMurphy</span></a></span> </p><p>Although I’m in favour of Proportional Representation, I’m also worried about the emphasis sometimes placed on it as a solution to the UK’s dysfunctional politics and democratic deficit.</p><p>While I think PR is better than FPTP, I don’t think it changes much in itself. FPTP systems produce a duopoly of ‘broad church’ parties that tend to take turns at government; PR systems produce lots of smaller parties, that indeed more accurately reflect the electors’ views, but which generally only get into government as part of ‘broad church’ coalitions. If you look at what governments have actually achieved under the various systems in Europe over recent decades, I’d say it’s true that PR has led to better government – but not actually that much better.</p><p>Reforming the funding of political parties would do more, I think – and many of the countries seen from the UK as better-governed are different in this respect, as well as voting systems – but I’d say equally important are facilitating media impartiality (by which I mean true impartiality – telling the truth regardless of vested interests – not the BBC idea of balancing opposing views) and decentralisation – passing far more funding and spending power, and decision-making, down to local levels. </p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/PR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PR</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/FPTP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FPTP</span></a></p>
Mark<p>What’s wrong with First Past the Post?</p><p>Under First Past the Post huge portions of us end up without a representative that we actually <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/voted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>voted</span></a> for</p><p>The reality is that First Past the Post delivers election results that are disproportional, with seats in <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Parliament" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Parliament</span></a> simply not matching votes.</p><p><a href="https://electoral-reform.org.uk/whats-wrong-with-first-past-the-post" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">electoral-reform.org.uk/whats-</span><span class="invisible">wrong-with-first-past-the-post</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/DemocracyNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DemocracyNow</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/FPTP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FPTP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/PR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PR</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Elections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Elections</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/England" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>England</span></a></p>
harryprayiv<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@joeress" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>joeress</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FPTP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FPTP</span></a> is why.</p><p>We are VOICELESS. Two privately owned parties that tell us they know what’s best for us in the US. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/jhw3pq/oc_what_if_germany_had_fptp/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/c</span><span class="invisible">omments/jhw3pq/oc_what_if_germany_had_fptp/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/jhh27v/what_if_sweden_had_fptp_oc/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/c</span><span class="invisible">omments/jhh27v/what_if_sweden_had_fptp_oc/</span></a></p>
AccordionBruce<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.ca/@AlisonCreekside" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>AlisonCreekside</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FPTP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FPTP</span></a> should be top of the agenda of at least the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BCndp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BCndp</span></a> while they have the chance to get rid of it</p><p>It amazes me that they don’t when they have their chance</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cdnpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bcpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bcpoli</span></a></p>
AccordionBruce<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Daojoan</span></a></span> <br>America is by far the least structurally democratic country, and the results show </p><p>The rich white slave-holders built in their power and it has never been broken</p><p>Britain, Canada, and India all suffer under First Past the Post systems</p><p>But the US has its Electoral College and all its other failed democracy ills: voter suppression, gerrymandering, and campaign funding/bribery/corruption</p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-</span><span class="invisible">past-the-post_voting</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FPTP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FPTP</span></a></p>
the roamerUK politics: local electiona and the rise of Reform
Stephen Elliott~Buckley<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@tezoatlipoca" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>tezoatlipoca</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/fairvote.ca" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>fairvote.ca</span></a></span></p><p>In 2021 they benefited from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fptp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fptp</span></a>, but less than the Liberals and Cons.</p><p>In 2025, they got almost exactly 6.3% of seats for that number of votes, so no gain there, but with a few thousand fewer votes than the NDP, they got 22 seats and the NDP only got 7. 😬</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cdnpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>canada</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/elxn45" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>elxn45</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antifa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antifa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/elbowsup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>elbowsup</span></a></p>