It seems like a significant part of the motivation here is you want to change the voting system to prevent a party you dislike from coming to power; this seems pretty anti-democratic to me. In general I think we should disapprove of efforts from incumbent governments to replace the rules they benefited from with a new set just in time to undermine their would-be successors.
The situation would be pretty different if Reform approved of this change, but I don’t get the impression they do?
I’m sorry if this came off as anti-reform in any way. That’s not the problem. The problem is one the UK is suffering from now where you can get 63% of the seats in parliament on 34% of the vote. That’s anti-democratic.
For more numbers on how FPTP skews UK politics, see https://electionresults.uk which goes back a decade and finds severe failures every time.
The US suffers this problem as well. This is what The Center for Election Science is working on, but the story here is that in the UK the ROI is so much higher per capita.
It seems like a significant part of the motivation here is you want to change the voting system to prevent a party you dislike from coming to power; this seems pretty anti-democratic to me. In general I think we should disapprove of efforts from incumbent governments to replace the rules they benefited from with a new set just in time to undermine their would-be successors.
The situation would be pretty different if Reform approved of this change, but I don’t get the impression they do?
Reform have publically called for proportional representation, and included it in their 2024 manifesto: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/06/25/nigel-farage-proportional-representation-reformuk-seats/
I’m sorry if this came off as anti-reform in any way. That’s not the problem. The problem is one the UK is suffering from now where you can get 63% of the seats in parliament on 34% of the vote. That’s anti-democratic.
For more numbers on how FPTP skews UK politics, see https://electionresults.uk which goes back a decade and finds severe failures every time.
The US suffers this problem as well. This is what The Center for Election Science is working on, but the story here is that in the UK the ROI is so much higher per capita.