Toby Eliot

Beer enthusiast, cricketing novice, electric mandoliner.

[STOPTHETORIES.VOTE 🟥🟧🟩 @GetTheToryOut]

Do you vote in either of these three seats?

Or do you know someone who does?

• Uxbridge & South Ruislip
• Selby & Ainsty
• Somerton & Frome

Then here's the updated #TacticalVoting info to take back the Tory seat

https://t.co/GpFonKmlwV

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

Progressives need to wake up to the reality of the UK’s political system and electoral system, which has historically and will continue to overwhelming favour the Conservative Party.

To challenge their power, we're going to have to work together to work out how to stop them.

[Neal Lawson @Neal_Compass]

If it is to ever win another election, Labour needs nothing less than refounding ⁦@CompassOffice⁩ https://t.co/OzlydNtUO0

[Electoral Reform Society @electoralreform]

Over in Gateshead, the Conservatives came second in the seats up for election, but won none of them, with the third place Lib Dems skipping over them.

[Electoral Reform Society @electoralreform]

In Redditch, 100% of the seats up for election went to the Conservatives, on 56% of the vote.

[Electoral Reform Society @electoralreform]

As results start to come in from local elections in England, one thing is for certain, the make up of the council chambers won't match how we voted. Sign our petition for all councils in the UK to match how we vote. https://t.co/WYH1OAb4O6

[GET PR DONE! ⭕️⚫️🟣🟢🔴🟠 @getprdone]

Whilst we have FPTP voting political parties need to cooperate.

A lesson learned in Cambridgeshire.
Labour did not field candidates in Six South Cambridgeshire seats & the LD won all six from the Conservatives.
#GetPRDone
#FBPPR
#FBPA
https://t.co/ETlV4XBanG

[Toby Eliot @tobyeliot]

@mrjamesob I suggest that the profit-sharing model operated by John Lewis might not fit with the Johnson/Symonds view of how capitalism should work.

[Toby Eliot @tobyeliot]

17m people can't be wrong, right?

[Brexitshambles @brexit_sham]

Brexit has cost the UK economy £130,000,000,000 ($170 billion) since the 2016 referendum and the number is going to keep getting bigger...
https://t.co/QZWWx6dG7k

[Michael Spicer @MrMichaelSpicer]

the room next door - Richard Burgon

[Dr Ellie Chowns MP @EllieChowns]

Our political system is absolutely broken.

Simply no link between votes and MP numbers.

- Labour got 17x more MPs per vote than @TheGreenParty
- Tories got 23x more
- SNP got 33x more

Grossly, outrageously unrepresentative.

How can anyone who cares about fairness defend this?

[Toby Eliot @tobyeliot]

This. All potentially progressive parties have failed to operate effectively under FPTP but @UKLabour have been the worst. Time for a rethink.

[Andrée Frieze 💚🌍🐝🌳🚂🚶🏽‍♀️🚌🚲🔯 @andree_frieze]

I have stood aside 3 times in #RichmondPark:
✔2016 by-election
✔2017 general election
✔#GeneralElection2019
@UKLabour REFUSED to talk to @TheGreenParty & @LibDems each time. Tribal & arrogant. That's why we are now facing 5 years of Johnson, hard #Brexit & utter misery.

[Electoral Reform Society @electoralreform]

Look at the Votes Per Seat column 😮

[Electoral Reform Society @electoralreform]

This should be the last election using Westminster's broken winner-takes-all system. It's time for proportional representation #GE2019

[Toby Eliot @tobyeliot]

@tomhappold No. Tells us all we need to know about the current state of our politics that Francois is allowed out from under his stone let alone on the telly.

[“Smylers” @Smylers2]

The Telegraph's sketchwriter @MichaelPDeacon on Boris Johnson's JCB stunt yesterday. I love the deadpan final line in this bit:
https://t.co/i0U9EoVfer

[Femi @Femi_sorry]

Here's Boris Johnson explaining why international solidarity is the key to global strength and success.

Apparently... countries who pool their resources and interests together are stronger at tackling modern problems.... Amazing. #Brexit
#NatoMeeting

[The Progressive Alliance 🟥🟩🟧 @TheProgAlliance]

If you really want to know which party has the best chance in your constituency of stopping the Tory winning...then don't listen to the local party-affiliated accounts, don't listen to the "there are placards everywhere" brigade...listen to us...because we're bloody good at it

[Electoral Reform Society @electoralreform]

BREAKING: Nearly 200 seats haven’t changed hands since World War II https://t.co/HLqTKZatNy

[Hugo Rifkind @hugorifkind]

What if the reasons Labour leavers have gone off Labour don't actually have much to do with Brexit?