⚠️ "Reform did well enough for First Past the Post to go from sandbag to springboard... This is now a Farage-friendly electoral system." 💬 Professor @robfordmancs.bsky.social speaking on @lbc.co.uk ⏰ Labour needs to wake up & get serious about electoral reform - starting with a National Commission - ThreadSky

labour4pr.bsky.social • 24 days ago

⚠️ "Reform did well enough for First Past the Post to go from sandbag to springboard... This is now a Farage-friendly electoral system."

💬 Professor @robfordmancs.bsky.social speaking on @lbc.co.uk

⏰ Labour needs to wake up & get serious about electoral reform - starting with a National Commission

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brexitbin.bsky.social•24 days ago

Please no more commissions. As I recall, Blair had one on PR, and the Con-Lib coalition ended up suggesting the only form of PR that that commission explicitly rejected in their PR ref. We already have a couple of forms of PR in the UK. Just choose one of them and introduce it for general elections.

boadas67.bsky.social•24 days ago

Agreed, we have more than evidence from Wales, Scotland and N Ireland to make progress on PR. Labour doesn't need to kick for the long grass with a Royal Commission, what's wrong with Parliamentary scrutiny?

brexitbin.bsky.social•24 days ago

Yes. Though at this stage, I'd be happy to put the forms of PR we currently use into a bag and just use whichever one we pull out by chance. They're all better than what we have. So let's not search for a "perfect" system. Let's not make "perfect" the enemy of "better".

dawnbowden.bsky.social•24 days ago

We have it in Wales for Senedd elections from 2026. Be interesting to see how it pans out.

briancandeland.bsky.social•23 days ago

You've had a proportional system in Wales since the Senedd was set up. You're just moving to a different proportional system.

dawnbowden.bsky.social•23 days ago

No, we’ve had a hybrid system - 40 elected on FPTP constituencies and then 20 top party top up seats elected on the d’Hont list system. Next year will be the first fully PR election.

briancandeland.bsky.social•23 days ago

That hybrid aspect is normal in proportional systems, e.g. Germany. The end result is proportional which is what matters. Wales is arguably moving to a less proportional system in that a Party could in theory get 10% across the whole country and not have a single Senedd representative.

laurajerramp.bsky.social•24 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/laurajerramp.bsky.social/post/3lob5uy2jss2n

briancandeland.bsky.social•23 days ago

The Australian system is not a proportional system. We should be looking to our European neighbours e.g. Germany ... or Scotland

laurajerramp.bsky.social•23 days ago

I thought it was possible to have preferential voting together with proportional representation . As in the Irish system of STV described here..

But whichever model chosen would be better for sure!

https://makevotesmatter.org.uk/proportional-representation/

grahambs.bsky.social•24 days ago

Excellent by Rob Ford

mikeinsdevon.bsky.social•24 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/mikeinsdevon.bsky.social/post/3lobl5vua7c2l

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