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A cross party call for PR which always tries to identify the route you’d take to it as your most urgent item.

[GET PR DONE! ⭕️⚫️🟣🟢🔴🟠 @getprdone]

Saying you can't change the unfair voting system without a manifesto pledge endorsed by the unfair voting system you want to change, is the most Blarite, duplicitous piece of nonsense yet heard in UK politics.

@AndyBurnhamGM has lost before he's started.

#GetPRDone

[Daniel Grigg @Daniel_Grigg]

Right wingers are only annoyed about Proportional Representation, because they realise there aren't actually that many right wingers.

[aHertfordLibDem🔸#DoGooder @AHertfordLibDem]

@_joebelcher @getprdone If it was up to me, I've go for pure STV, however I would be amazed if Labour went for such an open system so I would probably settle for some sort of AV+ if it meant getting change. (However we settled for Labours option before - AV, and we know how that went!)

[Axio 🔶 @axiochrono]

In 2015, the SDLP won Belfast South with 24.5% of the vote. That means that over three quarters of the electorate did not vote for them, but they won anyway.

Surely even if you don't agree with full-on PR, there has to be a fairer way of doing elections than this.

[Axio 🔶 @axiochrono]

There's this weird thing opponents of PR do where they talk about how it'll lead to more coalition governments but they don't actually explain why that's a bad thing. They just assume you already agree that one-party governments are good and coalitions are bad.

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75% don't even use 1 negative term about @EdwardJDavey. This is why Burnham decided to proportionally include the @LibDems in future governments?

[YouGov @YouGov]

Ahead of the Lib Dem party conference, we asked Britons to describe Ed Davey in three words

25% used at least one positive term, with "fun" and "caring" among the most common

35% used at least one negative term, with "clown" and "boring" among the most common

42% said "don't know" or even "who?"

[GET PR DONE! ⭕️⚫️🟣🟢🔴🟠 @getprdone]

53% don't use even one negative term about Zack Polanski. This is why Burnham decided to proportionally include the Greens in future governments?

[YouGov @YouGov]

Ahead of the Green's party conference, we asked Britons to describe Zack Polanski in three words

47% use at least one negative term, many alluding to dishonesty or foolishness

18% use at least one positive term, with "hope" and "caring" among the most common

34% said "don't know" or even "who?"

[James Meadway @meadwaj]

Very true for Labour. What happened at conference incomprehensible w/out Green impact. Challenge for Greens is taking political space Burnham has staked out and expanding it - if even the PM is saying we have to “end neoliberalism” this can be perfect conditions to demand more.

[GET PR DONE! ⭕️⚫️🟣🟢🔴🟠 @getprdone]

@Eamonnmoran AV not being proportional was also definitely a factor.

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You actually get around 5 or 6 local MPs (with STV) or an extra one from the party you voted for (with AMS). 🙃

[Laura Trott MP @LauraTrottMP]

Proportional representation is an awful voting system, no accountability, no local MP, no way.

[Nick 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈💚 @_Petit_Nicolas]

@DanJTPitt I'm nearly 60 and have voted in every general election since I was 18. Yet I have never seen anyone I voted for elected. Yet those who won imposed privatisation, austerity, brexit and all manner of egregious policies without a majority mandate from voters.

[Graham Smith 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🇬🇱 🐧 @GrahamSmith_]

@DanJTPitt The most stable governments in Europe use PR. We’ve had seven PMs in ten years.
PR does not cut ties to constituencies.
We already have extremists in parliament.
It would reduce leaders power as coalitions would be required in government and opposition.

[Mark Ellis 🇬🇧🔶🇪🇺 #LibDems #FBPE @markstraffellis]

@DanJTPitt FPTP gave us three PMs in 2022 alone. Germany and the Nordics govern stably under PR, and mixed systems keep a local MP.

Fear PR helps the fringe?

In Kent, Reform took 57 of 81 seats on 37% of the vote.

FPTP doesn't keep insurgents out. It hands them majorities.

[Democratic Socialists @Demosocialists]

@getprdone MPs elected by STV on unitary authority boundaries. Same number of MPs as now.

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@charliemansell If anyone was going to be prepared for the AMS STV wrestling match it was you Charlie. 🙂

[GET PR DONE! ⭕️⚫️🟣🟢🔴🟠 @getprdone]

Which do you prefer?

(1) A much bigger constituency with about 6 MPs (with likely at least 1 from the party you voted for) - STV,

Or,

(2) A slightly bigger constituency (with an extra MP from the party you voted for, if your party didn’t win) - AMS??

[Eamonn Moran @Eamonnmoran]

@getprdone 100 constituencies of 6 MPs sounds about right.

[Mat @Matthemod]

@getprdone AMS is probably the easier sell tbh

[Chavvy Rachel 🏳️‍⚧️💚 @RachelH71364724]

@getprdone In norway they have the regional list with top up seats based on the national vote. Any party that get 4%+ is guaranteed seats, usually about 7 seats for 4%. I'm sure a similar system could work with STV

[Echobeach @Echobeach19]

@getprdone I prefer additional member but would still prefer multimember larger constituencies over FPTP . Perhaps Multi Member could easily work based on county or metropolitan city .

[Joe Belcher @_joebelcher]

@getprdone I'd like to see AV+ with 50% MPs (325) elected via AV to constituencies roughly double the size they are now, and 50% MPs (325) elected via PR with those MPs representing regions such as West Midlands, East Midlands, Greater Manchester, Greater London, etc.

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@CharlesTannock Exactly. It strengthens the constituency link.

One of the reasons for FPTP was that the MP found it easier to travel around on horseback!