#grassrootsforEurope #rejoinEU #ProgressiveAlliance #ElectoralReform Campaigning for proportional representation for all UK Elections
Abingdon, Oxfordshire
Joined January 2019
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UK offers EU strategic partnership to boost trade and security theguardian.com/world/2025/a…
Whitehall officials ‘pushing for the Open to return to Trump-owned Turnberry’ theguardian.com/sport/2025/a…
OpenBritAbingdon #FBPE #FBPA #FBPPR #PR2028 retweeted
Hi @Tesco
On Good Friday I experienced the most awful and humiliating experience in your Hurst Park (Surrey) store. I popped in to pick up groceries on my way to visit friends. I used “scan as you go” as I always do, and paid £75.92 for my groceries, using my Apple Pay.
OpenBritAbingdon #FBPE #FBPA #FBPPR #PR2028 retweeted
"If politicians can write off millions of voters, we don't have democracy."
In her bestselling book "Minority Rule", @ayocaesar points out the injustices at the heart of our political system which marginalises young people and other underrepresented groups.
Well put! 👇
!["[I]n a democracy like ours, people don't determine a government: places do. It doesn't matter if you win a seat by seven votes or 70,000; get enough constituencies, and baby, you're in government.
Younger people, by which I mean the under-45s, are stacked up in electorally useless cities...
[N]obody cares about your vote. Sorry. It's a done deal."
-Ash Sarkar, "Minority Rule"](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GpUFLNuWYAEUXgx.jpg?name=orig)
ALT "[I]n a democracy like ours, people don't determine a government: places do. It doesn't matter if you win a seat by seven votes or 70,000; get enough constituencies, and baby, you're in government. Younger people, by which I mean the under-45s, are stacked up in electorally useless cities... [N]obody cares about your vote. Sorry. It's a done deal." -Ash Sarkar, "Minority Rule"
!["[A] political system where parties and politicians are incentivised to chase after a geographically dispersed cohort of homeowners, and can safely ignore tenants, benefits climants, students and people who live in densely populated urban constituencies isn't a good one.
If politicians can write off millions of voters, we don't have democracy. "
-Ash Sarkar, "Minority Rule"](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GpUFLNpXQAEU9lA.jpg?name=orig)
ALT "[A] political system where parties and politicians are incentivised to chase after a geographically dispersed cohort of homeowners, and can safely ignore tenants, benefits climants, students and people who live in densely populated urban constituencies isn't a good one. If politicians can write off millions of voters, we don't have democracy. " -Ash Sarkar, "Minority Rule"
OpenBritAbingdon #FBPE #FBPA #FBPPR #PR2028 retweeted
"The YouGov poll found that those who align themselves to Labour are still overwhelmingly in favour of a PR system."
Marc Ainge in @BylinesEast argues that @Keir_Starmer should listen to his own voters and bring in electoral reform.
We completely agree!
eastangliabylines.co.uk/demo…
OpenBritAbingdon #FBPE #FBPA #FBPPR #PR2028 retweeted
In the 1980's Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher allowed the richest to buy all our Public Resources, then the billionaires used all the money stolen from you to buy the Government.
That is how we got to the hell we have now.
OpenBritAbingdon #FBPE #FBPA #FBPPR #PR2028 retweeted
Time to take on the right over denying climate change. To indulge their nonsense is to risk both growth and a mounting civilisational challenge. Our kids deserve better. Promoting green growth does not make you an ‘eco-nutter’. It’s the only way forward theguardian.com/commentisfre…
OpenBritAbingdon #FBPE #FBPA #FBPPR #PR2028 retweeted
“Brexit has Failed” Nigel Farage
✍️So let’s sign up! 🇬🇧❤️🇪🇺
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
Current Parliament ‘least represents how the country voted of any in history’, MPs warn electoral-reform.org.uk/curr… via @electoralreform
OpenBritAbingdon #FBPE #FBPA #FBPPR #PR2028 retweeted
Personally I think the UK billionaires who are making £2m a day each, paying only 11% tax, less than a person on the minimum wage, and costing the same as 60,000 people on benefits each.
Are the ones taking the mickey.
OpenBritAbingdon #FBPE #FBPA #FBPPR #PR2028 retweeted
In GE2019, the Tories got 56% of seats on 44% of the votes. In GE2024, Labour got 63% of seats on 33.7% of the votes.
We need to change this system so that seats match votes - voters should get the MPs and policies they vote for.
#ChangeTheVotingSystem
OpenBritAbingdon #FBPE #FBPA #FBPPR #PR2028 retweeted
Closer economic ties with the European Union will boost growth by up to 2.2 per cent, according to new economic modelling shared with members of the cabinet
thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…
OpenBritAbingdon #FBPE #FBPA #FBPPR #PR2028 retweeted
“Above all, electoral reform could incentivise so many apathetic voters back to the polls. It could also steer them away from populist politicians who would be all too glad to exploit public exasperation at under-representation and wasted votes – [..].” eastangliabylines.co.uk/demo…
OpenBritAbingdon #FBPE #FBPA #FBPPR #PR2028 retweeted
⌛️📢Ask your MP to be there now:
actionnetwork.org/letters/pr…
OpenBritAbingdon #FBPE #FBPA #FBPPR #PR2028 retweeted
The #GE24 result was *the most disproportionate* in history, thanks to our broken First Past the Post system.
🤝 We've teamed up with @UnlockDemocracy, @MakeVotesMatter, @FairElectionsUK and @OpenBritainHQ to make sure MPs show up to this vital debate and support #PR.
