Finn White Ah the old classic, complain about FPTP when you won't get your way, then support it as soon as you do. Tale as old as time.
Brak Wood Dale Flower The Meh Office The Fall of Carthage Pigeon (Toast) Bert. Gordon Dudman Historywoman Marvโ๐ฝ Nial Stewart UK's 2024 general election turnout hit 59.9%, lagging behind Europe's national parliamentary average of around 70-75%, with standouts like Sweden (84%) and Belgium (88% via compulsion) far higher. Declining engagement and FPTP's perceived winner-takes-all dynamic contribute,
Frank sidebottom James Rolsche BSc dave lawrence ๐๐๐ If you read through my posts youโll see I was the one who bought up FPTP. Cope! ๐คก
Theo (BLM & trans women are women) Stats for Lefties ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ The majority of voters are rejecting Reform and the Tories. FPTP flatters Reform. Also, it's important to distinguish between Liverpool and the Merseyside region as a whole. I'd be very surprised if Reform were elected anywhere in Liverpool.
Frank sidebottom James Rolsche BSc dave lawrence ๐๐๐ You concede that Reform are leading the polls but are under-represented in Parliament considering they actually polled just under 1/2 the votes that LAB got to win in 2024, over a 1/2 more than the CONS, 600,000 more votes than the LibDem but in our FPTP system only got 5 seats.
Broadcasts from Nowhere Wibley TacticalVote.co.uk One golden rule is if a party benefits from FPTP and is crushing in the polls, that party would rather would rather take a chance to die (may or may not be revived) than ever give smaller parties political power
Turn Left Media The Green Party If true, that's interesting. Members of Zarah Sultana MP's party need to discuss that urgently. Our polemics with the Greens has to take into consideration their polls, and membership versus our own. Political differences matter. But so does FPTP and the barbarian aka Nigel Farage.
Finn White Ahhhh but Reform will bring in PR as Farage has always argued FPTP unfair and said he will change it so heโs bound to when in power with huge majority as heโs a man you can trust ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ Weโre so screwed
Finn White When you Greens come to power then you can introduce FPTP ๐คช๐๐คฃ๐ฉต๐ฌ๐ง๐บ๐ธ
PoliticsJOE In this FPTP system, the most significant difference will be which one will help Reform the most and thus hurt their own voters the most.
๐ค๐๐๐ค They will keep winning when piddling little centre-right Parties split the vote. That's you The Homeland Party, The Reclaim Party UK Independence Party, Heritage Party. FPTP has always been a 2 horse race and only the biggest, strongest in a constituency can win.
Andrew Neil The landslide was only due to the FPTP system. He didn't get massive support.
Robert Norris Dux Tom Newton Dunn Itโs not fantasy, the left bloc are not spread across enough seats to make an impact even with tactical voting. FPTP favours Reform.
If we had PR we would have an idea of the next government (based on which parties might form a coalition) IF the vote share did not change. Under FPTP even a MRP poll could not reliably predict the number of seats won at the general election. As Lewis Goodall says, it is chaos
