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🚨The votes are still being counted, but one thing is clear: #FirstPastThePost is broken! 🗳️🤬
MPs elected while 2/3 of voters opposed them! 😤
Majority governments on a quarter of the vote! 😤 This isn't #democracy. Sign the letter calling for electoral reform 👇 #Politics #HumanRights #Justice #Oligarchs #MediaReform #Accountability #ProportionalRepresentation
https://secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/191527/donate/1?locale=en-GB&en_chan=tw

🧵 1/2: If there's anything this #UKpol #localelections has definitely cemented, is how the #FirstPastThePost #FPTP system has been totally played by #Reform & its #billionaire supporters who absolutely don't need #PR, when the system already gives them a disproportionate representation as long as they pass the tipping point, (30% of votes gets 2/3 of seats). FPTP encourages #gerrymandering, which now started in the #UK.

https://archive.is/20250504011335/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/reforms-magic-number-30-percent-is-tipping-point-to-turn-votes-into-seats-ckwrwjc7z

https://electoral-reform.org.uk/englands-previous-local-elections-show-whats-wrong-with-our-voting-system/

#firstpastthepost #fptp

reincarnation of the 1940's #US #Fascist party (#AmericaFirst) did, in contrast, win the congressional majorities (Senate: 53/47, House: 220/2015.)

https://ballotpedia.org/Election_results,_2024:_U.S._Congress

This was enabled by a dualistic, unfairer #ElectoralSystem, the #US' #WinnerTakeAll system.
In contrast to a variant of the puralistic, fairer system of #ProportionalRepresentation.

Here is a comparison to the US system of #WinnerTakeAll (or #FirstPastThePost in the #UK:)

https://protectdemocracy.org/work/proportional-representation-explained/

@realSiegfried @jrredho

@jrredho
#WeimarRepublic #DEhistory #ThirdReich

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This is, in principle, correct, but the context is important:

1) In a (pluralistic) #ParliamentaryDemocracy, a #CoalitionGovernment is the norm, as they reflect society much better than #WinnerTakesAll/ #FirstPastThePost systems (e. g. US, UK.)

2.) At the beginning of the #GreatDepression, in 1930, the last such government collapsed on the vital question of unemployment-insurance reform:

@realSiegfried

Fascinating #UKelection analysis from the #ElectoralReform Society:

Even with so much tactical voting (where voters don't pick their true preference, and instead are guessing what other voters are going to do based on imperfect polling and trying to game the system in a dismal electoral Prisoner's Dilemma) we still see that most MPs were elected with a minority of the vote. Most voters voted for candidates that did not win.

The #FirstPastThePost system needs to go. #ProportionalRepresentation

Over 100 seats haven’t changed hands for 100 years or more https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/over-100-seats-havent-changed-hands-for-100-years-or-more/ n #ukpol #ukpolitics #FirstPastthePost #ElectoralReform #SafeSeats #GE2024

The Non-Battleground Election: Millions of voters are ignored https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/the-non-battleground-election-millions-of-voters-are-ignored/ n #ukpol #ukpolitics #FirstPastthePost #ElectoralReform #SafeSeats #GE2024

24 years ago the Greater London Authority Act gained royal assent https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/24-years-ago-the-greater-london-authority-act-gained-royal-assent/ n #ukpol #ukpolitics #TheSupplementaryVote #FirstPastthePost #AlternativeVote #Localdemocracy #LondonAssembly #MayorofLondon #London #Mayors

24 years ago the Greater London Authority Act gained royal assent https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/24-years-ago-the-greater-london-authority-act-gained-royal-assent/ #TheSupplementaryVote #FirstPastthePost #AlternativeVote #Localdemocracy #LondonAssembly #MayorofLondon #London #Mayors

@arh @lauteshirn

@arh
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But in 2017 #policyMakers ditched the Preferences system because it elected one #workingClass person into the senate in 2015, a #carEnthusiast named #RickyMuir. The professional managerial class went positively psychotic, whipping #middleClass #aussies into a frenzy, "How could this be!?", was the verbal diarrhea spewing from the waterCooler.

So called #Greens and…(2/3)

#sortition #firstPastThePost #divideAndRules