💥 70 MPs have backed the amendment to fix our broken voting system. This is huge - but we need many more to have a real impact and get a step closer to winning Proportional Representation. Check if your MP has signed, and if not, email them using our tool 👇

Ask your MP to back the amendment to fix our broken voting system.

Last month’s elections have shown just how broken our voting system is. 70 MPs have just supported an amendment demanding a total review of this system, and a change to proportional representation. B...

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Over half a million people visited StopReformUK.vote in the run up to the 7th May elections – proof that people are seeking advice on how to vote tactically, putting the greater good ahead of their own party loyalties. Thank you to everyone who voted tactically to stop Reform! (or the Tories)

💥 THIS IS BIG: As millions of people head to the polls, The Guardian calls for a better voting system. 👏👏👏 "The first-past-the-post model used to elect local authorities in England is ill-suited to multiparty politics." It's time to change it.

The Guardian view on Britain’s multiparty politics: the Westminster voting system needs to catch up | Editorial

Editorial: Local and devolved elections will reveal fragmented party allegiances that cannot be fairly represented in parliament via first past the post

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💥Growing numbers of experts warn political fragmentation is breaking First-Past-the-Post ahead of the Local Elections “British politics looks more fundamentally different than it has done at any time in postwar history” Sir John Curtice @thechrismasontv.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Chris Mason: Elections this week a smorgasbord of competitiveness

The scale of these elections looks set to vividly expose the breadth of Labour's vulnerabilities, Chris Mason writes.

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NEW: It’s a journocide. Israel admits to targeting & killing three more journalists & making up false evidence. Journalists in the west have a moral responsibility to speak up. The blowback from this impunity is coming next for us all. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Journocide

Targeting journalists and killing them with impunity isn't just a war crime, it's a warning of what comes next

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Political appointments to the BBC Board must end. Even the perception of interference that goes with those appointments can damage credibility and trust.

BBC to call for permanent charter and end of political appointments to board

Corporation proposes sweeping changes intended to protect its independence and shore up its future

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💥 Professor Vernon Bogdanor writes for @financialtimes.com: "An electoral system should do two things: ensure that the majority rules and that significant minorities are adequately represented. First Past the Post achieves neither."

It’s time to end Britain’s first-past-the-post election lottery

The Gorton and Denton by-election confirmed just how capricious our electoral system has become

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An extraordinary speech by an extraordinary man. @mark-carney.bsky.social leading the Free World after the United States voted itself down. Watch this speech. It's more than worth your time. youtu.be/dTvFnC-oFGw?...

FULL SPEECH: Canada’s PM Carney Says US-Led World Order Is Breaking at World Economic Forum | AC1G

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NEW: Carney nails it. We have to stop pretending. Read this to understand the deep & dark hinterland behind the speech & why Vaclav Havel’s concept of ‘living in truth’ is the guide we need right now 1/

Billionaires shouldn't be able to buy a bigger voice in politics. Add your name to ‪@electoralreform.bsky.social‬'s call to put a cap on how much they can donate in the #ElectionsBill action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/179420/...

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Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story. Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done. You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story! 🧵 1/9

There are 4.24m people with Indefinite Leave to Remain (or equivalent). 82% are in work, compared with 74% of Britons 3.8m are in relationships with Britons They have about 2.4m British-born children. This bullshit is never going to happen. Again. But... www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Reform branded ‘threat to democracy’ over Farage plan to remove thousands of migrants with leave to be in UK – politics live

Nigel Farage says Reform UK would scrap the main route that migrants take to gain British citizenship

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Sadiq Khan condemns Nigel Farage's threat to deport hundreds of thousands of Londoners with settled status. “They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city. “Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.”

📜 We're pleased to publish a Terms of Reference for a National Commission on Electoral Reform ⚖️ This is a ready to go plan to independently review how Parliament is elected, promote a national conversation, and build consensus on a way forward 🧵 1/3

National Commission on Electoral Reform: Terms of Reference

APPG for Fair Elections

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I genuinely think one thing that trips up folks on the left is that they can't imagine not sharing certain core values. Lemme explain. Here's an intuition pump: Say you're in negotiations with counterparty X. And there are two possible deals on the table ...

This is my flag.

Why can't Starmer grasp that radical media reform is needed? The lies of the right-wing press have massively perverted our democracy. There is no democracy where voters are grossly misinformed.

Geoff Tucker@geoffreytucker1.bsky.social · last yr.

Short answer: no. Longer answer: of course fucking not. More detailed answer: this has previously been suggested and was found to violate international law, including maritime law, risked increased loss of life and, minor point, a possible declaration of war on France. news.sky.com/story/is-it-...

These are the kind of stories I want to see about asylum seekers. Not the boats. 🔗 www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

left: Labour minister James Murray tells Sky News that it's "absolutely right for people to protest about this" right: the protest about this www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I know there's a risk of amplifying the fascist horror show, but I think we need to be aware of just how far things are going, especially as this man is a Republican candidate for governor of California. All the old safeguards are being deliberately torn down, and the unspeakable normalised.

Are we experiencing “collective outrage”? Not the sort that’s farmed by media barons and algo-savvy modern day shock jocks The kind that feels like system failure. The moral compass spinning. With more race riots looming & extreme weather, slop summer cooking our brains… A few thoughts. 🧵

President Macron, "What is at stake in Europe is the different democratic models amid foreign interference" "Information manipulation" "Domination of minds by negative emotions and addictions to social media" "Being vulnerable to algorithms designed in the US and China"

Change the UK voting system. Eradicate disillusionment and encourage voter participation. People could start to believe that their VOTES ACTUALLY MATTER petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Petition: Use Proportional Representation at the next General Election

Change the voting system to Proportional Representation instead of First Past the Post. We think this would eradicate disillusionment and encourage voter participation as people could start to believe...

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ICE arrested 36 Chinese & Taiwanese immigrants after raiding an LA nightclub. That's them, ziptied on the sidewalk. Yo Asians—if you weren't already outraged and mobilizing on behalf of others, guess what? That "First they came for the..." poem has gotten up to us. www.latimes.com/california/s...

MAGA Republicans are keen on the use of military force against citizens & the deployment of big tech for mass surveillance. This is a violent, authoritarian movement legitimised by anti-migrant rhetoric. If you don't want that here, we have to stand up before it's too late.

Imagine if the Tabloid Right returned to reality…

📊 "We are in a five - actually six in Wales & Scotland - party system now. Our electoral system is utterly, utterly unfit for purpose in that context" 💬 APPG Vice Chair @elliechowns.bsky.social 🚀 "The first step is setting up that National Commission for Electoral Reform"

🚨 Nigel Farage says First Past the Post is becoming his "friend" ❌ No party should be able get a majority in Parliament with 30% of the vote 💣 Why risk it with First Past the Post?

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 2y ago

Latest YouGov Westminster voting intention (16-17 Feb) Ref: 27% (+1 from 9-10 Feb) Lab: 25% (=) Con: 21% (=) Lib Dem: 14% (=) Green: 9% (=) SNP: 3% (=) yougov.co.uk/politics/art...