briancandeland.bsky.social
Elections Coordinator on Green Party England and Wales Executive. Pronouns he/him. Other interests include Amateur Dramatics, walking, salsa. 50% Scottish, 50% English, 100% European. Views are my own.
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I think I've seen this post pretty much every day for the last 4 years
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It's not intended to be efficient, just performative.
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A Green Lib Dem coalition would have an absolute majority and wouldn't include any right-of-centre Parties
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Entirely plausible given our crazy electoral system. Labour - do something about it FFS
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Thank you, yes we've picked up a few from Labour in recent months. I should have made it clear it's mostly Tories and some Independents defecting to Reform.
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Interesting to hear - what's your source for that
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That's outrageous
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Surely the new Reform run councils in Lancashire and Durham will be able to fix this...
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Where do you start?
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opencouncildata.co.uk/changes.php?...
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Sadly not, they are gaining councillors via defections from Tories and Labour faster than they are losing them currently.
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It's first past the post that has given them full control of a range of English counties with well under half the vote. PR limits them.
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I wonder how many of the millions who voted for his 'Party' would agree with this...
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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.
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More likely a leadership bid
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You've had a proportional system in Wales since the Senedd was set up. You're just moving to a different proportional system.
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The Australian system is not a proportional system. We should be looking to our European neighbours e.g. Germany ... or Scotland
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Exactly - about 30% did out of those who bothered to vote in those counties in England which actually had elections.
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I know this is a USA post but it feels strangely and horribly applicable to the UK as well right now.
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And a couple more from the counties:
Kent: Reform 37% vote, Reform 70% seats
Staffordshire: Reform 42% vote, Reform 79% seats. Once vote share gets into the high 20s, Reform swiftly move from minor players to total dominance. FPP keeps out new parties...until it doesn't.
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If they've been trying to run a number of councils and won a few Mayoral contests their slate may be pretty dirty by 2028/29.
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When we talk about the environment they say 'You're just a single issue Party' when we talk about anything else they say 'Why aren't you talking about the environment'. Talking of 'single issue' what are Reform other than hating foreigners?
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33% of them are I think, and that might well be enough for an absolute majority thanks to first-past-the-post. It's a very realistic possibility
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Maybe it was a white migrant from South Africa?
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car free streets? where? surely an endangered species nowadays
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No bord, just eau
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There's nothing left about Wings over Scotland
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None of us are. Except maybe Putin