MakeVotesMatter Reading

[GET PR DONE! ⭕️⚫️🟣🟢🔴🟠 @getprdone]

First-past-the-post , where 25.9% of the votes can result in a win for one candidate, whilst those within a hair's breadth get nothing. 🤷‍♂️

#getPRdone
#ProportionalRepresentation

Royston Palace (North Herts) Council By-Election:

🌹 LAB: 25.9%
🔶 LDM: 25.6%
🌳 CON: 24.1%

[Make Votes Matter @MakeVotesMatter]

With public support for change never higher, resistance to electoral reform can only last so long.

Even if not this time, representative politics will win eventually.

Read about the campaign to change the voting system for council elections in Wales 👇
https://t.co/kXxcsLtUy6

[Electoral Reform Society @electoralreform]

We were delighted to welcome former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern into the office today to talk to the team about how proportional representation has worked in New Zealand.

[Andy's gone to Blue sky... @misterapb]

Grand work again, Andy🤩🤩🤩👍👍👍

[Bristol for PR @YEurope19]

Excellent news in Bristol https://t.co/lKC5YCZzqP

[APPG for Fair Elections @FairElectionsUK]

🗳 The APPG for Fair Elections has some big ambitions and exciting plans

🏛 With trust in politics so low, the integrity of our democracy is more important than ever

👇 Our Vice Chair @EllieChowns talks about this new all party group - and what we're campaigning for

[Make Votes Matter @MakeVotesMatter]

Gwynedd consultation backs STV with nearly three quarters in favour

🥳Good to see such a decisive rejection of the broken FPTP system!🥳

https://t.co/2bwdRIM08R via @electoralreform

[Electoral Reform Society @electoralreform]

New Zealand ditched their Westminster style First Past the Post system in the 1990s and adopted proportional representation. https://t.co/G2eBST5jlW

[Lib Dems for Electoral Reform 🔶️ #FBPPR @LibDems4ER]

“Being a rock solid safe seat in a first-past-the-post system isn’t great for democracy. So many people have said it’s the first time their vote has ever counted.”

As @JohnMilneLD says, PR would make everyone’s vote count at every election, everywhere.

🔶#ChangeTheVotingSystem

[Make Votes Matter @MakeVotesMatter]

Paul Johnson of the @TheIFS:

"I think there's at least some evidence that a better designed electoral system has an effect on the quality of economic policy making..."

[MakeVotesMatter Reading @MVMReading]

Politics isn't working. It's time to call time on the broken culture in Westminster and have a fresh start with a fair voting system. Add your name to @electoralreform's call to #MakeSeatsMatchVotes https://t.co/7EmGMsvRtF

[MakeVotesMatter Reading @MVMReading]

Austria's far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) got about 1/3 of the vote - same as Labour in the UK. Unlike the UK, they won't get 100% of the power in parliament..
#pr #proportionalrepresentation #firstpastthepost #democracy

[GET PR DONE! ⭕️⚫️🟣🟢🔴🟠 @getprdone]

Leading Labour Mayor Calls on Keir Starmer to Review Westminster’s Warped Voting System-
Great Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has urged PM Keir Starmer’s Government to launch a review of the First Past the Post voting system used for Westminster elections.
https://t.co/FmxEkLbe8p

[Natalie Bennett @natalieben]

From @TheEconomist!

"Britain’s first-past-the-post system becomes a random number generator. Set-up designed to lock in representative, stable government increasingly guarantees the reverse"

@MakeVotesMatter @electoralreform
https://t.co/irPZ2OjdR6

[LCER @Labour4PR]

Great to catch up with @MickWhelanASLEF at the #Labour4PR stall this morning

@ASLEFunion is one of the more than two thirds of Labour's affiliated trade unions with policy in favour of electoral reform

🌹 #Lab24

[Make Votes Matter @MakeVotesMatter]

"it’s in Labour’s interests to embrace the discussion about electoral reform now. Because it’s better for them to make the running and own this issue than be bounced into it five years down the line"

Yes @robfordmancs & @AndyBurnhamGM - we agree 👍👍!

https://t.co/FuCv8XNfAd

[Electoral Reform Society @electoralreform]

Any party which considers themselves champions of democracy should be in favour of proportional representation.
https://t.co/Q1s5Yu3PE7

[Make Votes Matter @MakeVotesMatter]

Betting the country’s future on First Past the Post is like gambling with “a random number generator”.

“An electoral set-up designed to lock in representative, stable government increasingly guarantees the reverse.”

We need a system we can rely on.
https://t.co/Okis2heXYC

[Make Votes Matter @MakeVotesMatter]

Britain isn't working because politics isn't working.

@Keir_Starmer If you truly wanted to transform Britain in the long term, you'd bring in #ProportionalRepresentation

[Make Votes Matter @MakeVotesMatter]

Congratulations to the wonderful local group MVM Sefton & West Lancs (aka: @MVM_EqualVotes ) for hosting a recent 'reformers Picnic' at the #ParboldBottle near Wigan this month.

Take look at their website for videos, blogs and more about their event:
https://t.co/YYTdiFvEgR