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@Seb321 @Amoshias @aaron @Pineywoozle @hotelzululima @ariaflame @UkeleleEric @Robotistry @Ilka4You

"I’m a member of the #GreenParty"

😂

there we have it

the only question for Seb that remains is:

1. if he is an idiot who doesn't understand what #thirdParty in the #USA's #FPTP system does

2. or if he knows, and is aiding #MAGA on purpose

Seb: we take over the #Democrats

#Mamdani. #ElSayed

this is now the way forward

we don't work to get #Trump elected

which is what you're doing dimwit

let's review two things people still struggle with:

1. not voting only helps #MAGA

it does not improve anything nor convince anyone. it only serves your selfish entitlement and smug self-gratification

2. a 3rd party #vote in our shit #FPTP system only helps MAGA

it divides the left vote. it's just math

we have to take over the #Democrats

it's the only way

And look!

people are beginning to get it 😁:

EARLY RESULTS. they can still lose

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/08/04/michigan-missouri-primary-democrats-test

#Michigan #ElSayed #primary

Kind of disappointing that the turnout for the most powerful directly elected executive politician in the UK is a paltry 25%.

I'd hope that the use of the only non #FPTP system in England would help, but #SupplementaryVote isn't that interesting when the winner is a foregone conclusion.

#GreaterManchester #Manchester #GMMayor

@riggbeck @Wen I seriously believe #FPTP dissuades a lot of people from voting -- because there are no candidates who offer them an even moderately appealing vision of the future, and because their vote won't have any effect anyway.

I mean, electors in Britain are disengaged and apathetic. But I believe that they are disengaged and apathetic is mostly because out soi-disant 'democratic system' is so disempowering.

There is a logic to Kemi #Badenoch's purge of wets like #GavinBarwell.

For 2 centuries, #Conservatives aimed to be a national party, a broad church allied against rapid change. It worked brilliantly. At most general elections, they won a plurality of votes, and #FPTP gave them a majority of seats.

Now the #Kemisphere is a rump, with less than ⅙ of the seats. Polls predict ⅕ of votes and 1/10 of seats.

Kemi isn't preparing for power. She is purifying her tiny sect.

https://archive.is/eIzQg

@patrickhadfield AV is in some ways worse than #FPTP. It has some mathematical quirks which produce perverse results. See e.h. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting.

Andy #Burnham was Shadow Education Secretary during the 2011 referendum (which he opposed).

It's inconceivable that a v bright Cambridge grad was a shadow cabinet member during a national referendum, but didn't grasp the basics.

Whatever his other merits, Burnham's stance on #electoralReform is a huge big lie.

@ChrisMayLA6

@IanStuart @UnassumingKiwiReborn

the #USA is an #FPTP voting system (the #UK is too, but it is also #parliamentary, which lends stability and viability to 3rd parties the #US does not have)

so we are stuck with 2 parties. a 3rd party vote divides the left and #MAGA wins

we can fix it with #RCV, ranked choice voting, then we can vote 3rd party to our heart's content

until then, we have to focus on taking over the #Democrats, which is what #DSA like #Mamdani is doing

that is the way forward

@buarth Another take on that is that anyone who hasn't already figured out the absurdity of #FPTP is an incurable oxygen thief.

If they hadn't figured that #Starmer's ⅔ of the seats on ⅓ of the votes in 2024 was an obscenity, they are beyond hope.

@ChrisMayLA6

'Announcing the new rules, the communities secretary, Steve Reed, said: “British democracy is not for sale. These tough new rules will shut down dodgy funding, stop foreign money influencing our elections and keep our democracy strong.”'

What democracy, Mr Reed?

I see very little with the prevalence of #FPTP in British elections.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/06/political-donations-crackdown-nigel-farage-cottrell-gifts

Starmer resigns: Which European country has highest turnover of leaders?

With resignation of #Starmer, #UK is to have its 7th PM in 10 years

A far cry from a country once touted for its ability to produce stable and long-lasting #governments compared to other #European nations, due to its first-past-the-post voting system, the principle of #parliamentary #sovereignty and its evolutionary tradition of governance.

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/06/29/starmer-resigns-which-european-country-has-the-highest-turnover-of-leaders

#ProportionalRepresentation #Voting #FPTP #VotingReform

@markgrieveson
1. In the 2004 NHL Eastern Conference Finals, Tampa Bay won four games, vs. three for New Jersey; but overall the Devils outscored the Lightning, 23 to 21. Is it unfair that Tampa Bay won the series? No, because we decide the victor of an NHL playoff series based on the number of games won, not the number of goals. Similarly, it's not unfair when the Liberals win more seats despite the #CPC winning more votes; it's just how the rules work.

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#ElectoralReform #FPTP

@markgrieveson I think the tendency to give majority government power and responsibility to the party that wins the most votes is one of the virtues of #FPTP; it's a feature, not a bug.

Thanks for sharing the link. I respect Mr. Coyne, and I've read him make arguments in favour of PR before. I'll watch the try to video when I have time.

#ElectoralReform

"No UK prime minister has served a full term since David Cameron", writes #BenQuinn in #TheGuardian https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/22/keir-starmer-quits-prime-minister-what-will-happen-next-uk-politics-explained

Quinn's article is not analysis, but it's a valuable survey.

My takeaway is how the case for #FPTP voting has collapsed. It used to be a stabiliser: heavily-rewarded winners got a safe majority to govern.

But that no longer works. Big majority govts now implode rapidly and spectacularly.

Time for #STV, to create a representative parliament.

h/t @PoliceStateUK

#ukpol

... Our system of #electing #MPs, #FPTP, means national outcomes often bear little relation to how people actually #vote

- In 2024, #Labour’s 34% vote share translated into two-thirds of the seats. But that massive #majority hasn’t lent stability, because #stability comes from popular support.

https://electoral-reform.org.uk/keir-starmers-resignation-is-the-latest-product-of-the-chaos-of-first-past-the-post/?utm_medium=mastodon_fediverse

#UK #elections #voting #ProportionalRepresentation #Starmer #ToxicPolitics #DemocracyNOW

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Starmer’s resignation is latest product of the #chaos of First Past the Post (FPTP)

#Starmer’s #resignation should be a moment of reckoning. It is finally time to ask the tough questions about how we choose our #leaders, and how we choose the system that chooses them.

It would be easy to blame individual leaders. Whilst that inevitably plays a part, the #instability we are living through runs deeper than who occupies Number 10...

#FPTP #UK #elections #democracy #voting #vote

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@therightarticle I live in one of the safest Conservative seats in the country. I am forced to vote tactically by #FPTP.

@neufena @ZackPolanski He's a fool, then. Under #FPTP, #Reform could secure 245-378 #Commons #seats on the basis of just 27% of the vote (see: https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/prediction_main.html).

Meet #JaneeseLewisGeorge

#Frontrunner for next #mayor of #WashingtonDC

#Trump threatened to take over #DC if she wins, which gave a huge boost to her #campaign 🤭

Proudly affiliated with the #DemocraticSocialistsofAmerica #DSA

Running as a #Democrat because she has to in our #FPTP voting system

If you complain the #Democrats suck, you're right. But if that moves you to not vote, you're an idiot helping #MAGA

#Vote. In the #primaries. *Take them over*

https://www.newsweek.com/democratic-socialist-lewis-georges-chances-in-dc-race-amid-trump-threat-12062849

@Lazarou I haven't voted FOR a party in decades. I can't risk it, under #FPTP so I voted Labour in 2024 to get rid of Tory Corruption and got a government that appears to accept Israel's right to kill as many Palestinians as they see fit; so now I have to vote against them and against the whole spectrum of fascists to their Far Right. Luckily, Starmer has made life easier by being Right of the LibDems AND the Greens.

@etchedpixels I have noticed that in Wales, from the political approach of my Welsh friends and their circles.

It seems to be very much about what skills and values you being to the problem-solving table, rather than shouting from rooftops. Politics as if it was done by real adults rather than hyper-caffeinated toddlers.

I really hate the siloed, binary thinking and backroom games created by #FPTP.

@ChrisMayLA6

@ChrisMayLA6 I am now worried that as the UK starts to move beyond #FPTP for Westminster elections, it won't unpack the term #PR.

Pure #dHondt or #AMS are the likely winners, although #AndyBurnham is muddying the waters by mendaciously labelling #AV as #PR. It isn't.

There is a serious risk that as political parties decline, the UK will adopt an electoral system which hands more power to the dying parties. Who will champion #STV?

@ChrisMayLA6 #LibDems were in coslition with Scittish Labour 1999–2007, and got #STV for Scittish local elections.

But LibDems were later almost wiped out in Wales. So when #PlaidCyrmu and #WelshLabour agreed to abandon #AMS for the #Senedd, there was no strong LibDem voice for STV. The Senedd is now #dHondt only.

2024 showed how #FPTP is clearly broken in Westminster elections. Labour's ⅔ of seats on ⅓ of votes was so obscene that there should have been huge, destructive riots.

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@ChrisMayLA6 #STV was used for the Commons university constituencies, from 1918 to 1950. The last STV election to the Commons was the Combined Scottish Universities by-election in November 1946.

For decades thereafter, the Liberal Party and it's successors the #LibDems championed STV. But their enthusiasm lapsed after the disastrous #AV referendum in 2011. Now in a fragmented landscape, LibDems are slight beneficiaries of #FPTP, and seem uninterested in electoral reform.

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