Neil D retweeted
The most disproportionate election in British history #GE2024
PROVISIONAL RESULT
🔴 Labour: 34% votes = 63% seats
🔵 Tory: 24% votes = 18% seats
🟣 Reform: 14% votes = <1% seats
🟠 Lib Dem: 12% votes = 11% seats
🟢 Green: 7% votes = <1% seats
🟡 SNP: 2% votes = 1% seats
🧵 1/3
Neil D retweeted
Today's Twitter Poll: Do you think the first past the post (FPTP) system has worked well, or should we move closer to a form of proportional representation (PR)?
Rough glossary:
First Past The Post: Current system where each constituency elects person who got most votes, all other votes are then mostly irrelevant.
Proportional Representation: All votes count as (through various different mechanisms) number of seats is made to more closely matches the percentage of the national vote.
14%I'm labourish: FPTP works
47%I'm labourish: PR better
8%Not labourish: FPTP works
31%Not labourish: PR better
46,309 votes • Final results Neil D retweeted
A massive majority on 36% of the vote is just ridiculous. We desperately need proportional representation.
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If Labour get 45% of the vote, what proportion of seats should they get?
Please retweet for a larger sample.
After answering, please check out sprintforpr.uk
4%35%
76%45%
3%55%
17%65%
293 votes • Final results Neil D retweeted
The last line says it all. These people will be back. Unless Labour do the responsible thing and introduce electoral reform. Which they won’t.
Why has it taken voters so long to turn? Cameron applied outdated Thatcherism in response to a global financial crash..and accidentally lost a referendum..May was submerged by Brexit civil war..Johnson was least suited for complexities and scrutiny of leadership of any Tory PM in history ..Truss… and now Sunak again seeking a return to 1980s Thatcherism..hailing his plan without explaining what it is. Unsurprisingly UK is poor and dysfunctional…it took a long time for voters to make the connections…but they have now and there’s no way back for Sunak and his party. In opposition the Tories need a debate they avoided between 97-2010 about where they went wrong and why… but looks like the right wing English exceptionalists will dominate the post mortem.. in which case there’ll be more post mortems after this one.
Neil D retweeted
Nine years ago today, this guy became a 🐐
ALT Atdhe Nuhiu in action for Sheffield Wednesday.
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Britain’s planning system is a monumental act of national self-sabotage, exhibit #4729.
A big new data centre (which the country really needs) right next to a huge motorway is refused permission because “the buildings would be visible from the bridges across the motorway”
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Well done! My congratulations. 👏👏👏
Appears there is now at least one of the eNOGs prepared finally to take a stand, long overdue but very, very welcome.
Question becomes who's next and as a sector do they have the leadership to see this through and win it?
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Neil D retweeted
We’ve scaled the scaffolding at Labour’s London HQ to remind Keir Starmer what he once said about proportional representation.
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Proportional representation is the most popular form of democracy for countries in the world today. It's the simple idea that the strength of each faction in parliament should closely match their popularity in the country. For many people, that's what living in a democracy means.
Britain could well be heading for seismic electoral reform that'll keep the Left in power for ever. And Starmer may sign up to it without voters even getting a say mailplus.co.uk/edition/comme… via @mailplus
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Just another voice in the crowd asking why this person ever gets to drive again
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What Wikipedia did: we stood strong for our principles and fought to the Supreme Court of Turkey and won. This is what it means to treat freedom of expression as a principle rather than a slogan.
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While we learn that *every single river* in England is polluted, here is the River Limmat in Switzerland. It runs through the centre of the largest city, Zürich (population: 436,000).
Water Quality: Excellent
Public Swimming Baths: 11
We have been mugged. #WildIsles
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Imagine lying to get the Brexit you wanted, ousting May, sacking 21 MPs, installing Johnson, illegally proroguing parliament, settling for a mediocre leave-supporting cabinet, putting the GFA at risk, voting for Truss and still believing that it’s someone else’s fault.
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This is the next stage of the Tufton Street agenda: privatisation and the splintering of the state. Tea Party Tories trying to sell off our national inheritance
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This sounds about right. US and UK both went for austerity after GFC, undermining central bank efforts to lift growth. Then in 21/22 borrowed when this undermined central bank efforts to contain inflation. – at Hackney, London
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BREAKING: British pound has fallen to it lowest level against the US dollar since 1985, when Margaret Thatcher was running the country
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Congratulations Jacob Rees-Mogg. Look forward to you advocating for a clean energy sprint inc onshore wind & solar, a windfall tax, keeping the fracking ban and having no truck with those questioning climate science. And remember: we need energy policy for the 2020s not the 1820s
The Rt Hon Jacob Rees-Mogg MP @Jacob_Rees_Mogg has been appointed Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy @BEISGovUK.
#Reshuffle
ALT Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg