@JackTheCat They won't. Neither will the fascists. It suits whoever is in power to maintain the status quo. #FPTP got them there despite the fact it's corrupt, undemocratic and NFFP . Out of power 'they' look for any wrinkle. Remember #LINO promised a review and change to the electoral system in their last manifesto. Now? "too many other pressing issues"...my rse!

@ChrisMayLA6 Broadening the franchise is pointless without replacing the discredited #FPTP system with PR.

@RollingStone @all-news-RollingStone

Mathematically, in a #FPtP system, they are just as much to blame for this mess as the #fascists.

@Geri which just goes to show how spectacularly bad #FPTP is.

@tinker i prefer #Approval #voting but #RCV / #IRV is still better than #FPTP

I can't resist, time for another Ben #voting rant:

https://gothamist.com/news/nearly-a-quarter-of-nycs-early-voters-hadnt-voted-in-a-democratic-primary-since-2012

"Nearly a quarter of #NYC’s early voters were new #Democratic #primary participants"

So #Mamdani's chances of winning today is propelled by people showing the fuck up

If he wins he moves us toward remaking the #Democrats further #left

nonAmericans/ naive people:

In the stupid American #FPTP voting system 3rd party only divides the left. Duverger's Law

So we have to remake the dems, this is our only way forward

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@RichardJMurphy

Although I’m in favour of Proportional Representation, I’m also worried about the emphasis sometimes placed on it as a solution to the UK’s dysfunctional politics and democratic deficit.

While I think PR is better than FPTP, I don’t think it changes much in itself. FPTP systems produce a duopoly of ‘broad church’ parties that tend to take turns at government; PR systems produce lots of smaller parties, that indeed more accurately reflect the electors’ views, but which generally only get into government as part of ‘broad church’ coalitions. If you look at what governments have actually achieved under the various systems in Europe over recent decades, I’d say it’s true that PR has led to better government – but not actually that much better.

Reforming the funding of political parties would do more, I think – and many of the countries seen from the UK as better-governed are different in this respect, as well as voting systems – but I’d say equally important are facilitating media impartiality (by which I mean true impartiality – telling the truth regardless of vested interests – not the BBC idea of balancing opposing views) and decentralisation – passing far more funding and spending power, and decision-making, down to local levels.