More than four out of five Labour members now support Proportional Representation, a 7pt increase on two years ago! 🎉📈
Thanks to the work of @Labour4PR and everyone involved in #L4ND, the pressure on @UKLabour to back equal votes continues to rise!
https://t.co/bv6L9vPkj4
Imagine you got to choose - really choose - who will speak for you in Parliament.
That, essentially, is what Proportional Representation means.
It's also why some people don't want you to have it.
Did you know that PR for Northern Ireland Assembly elections is written into the Good Friday Agreement?
Here is Duncan Shipley Dalton, former MLA in Northern Ireland, talking about his experience of being elected under a proportional system. @BaronVonDuncs
It should be elections that strike fear in the hearts of MPs - not boundary reviews.
But many safe seat MPs are untouchable in elections.
With First Past the Post, the decisive factor is how lines are drawn on a map, not the choices made by voters. #ChangeTheVotingSystem
15 years after he was stabbed to death in London, Kiyan Prince’s dream of becoming a footballer is being realised ⚽️
His family and friends speak to #BBCBreakfast as they’ve worked with video game designers to turn him into a FIFA player 🎮
https://t.co/9pNwIOZi0L
And Juliet Stevenson, her range just beggars belief. I'm in awe.
It's taken me nearly thirty years since the TV adaptation had everyone talking about it and I was determined I'd read it first. Don't make that mistake. 10/10.
Just finished Middlemarch, read by Juliet Stevenson, on Audible.
You have probably heard of this book's reputation, as being perhaps the greatest of Victorian novels, but also long and sometimes abandoned. If so, and if that's put you off, then let me grasp you by the hand...
Feeling weirdly broken by the voter ID stuff and the university free speech stuff. This government has nothing in the tank except open corruption and culture war bullshit, and they're still fucking winning.