Submitted 1 week ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/27/labour-reform-uk-british-politics-nigel-farage
As a non-Brit, I see what’s happening as a slow motion car wreck.
Marine Lepen MPs won 40% of the votes in the first round of the parliament elections. Luckily, France has 2 round elections. In the second round, everyone rallied against Lepen MPs.
If France adopted the First-Past-The-Post voting system, Marine Lepen would be ruling the country with an absolute majority.
That’s cool. They tricked a transferable voting system into thinking it was fptp. But we can’t just copy the French, this is England. The racists would never accept it.
Slightly tangential, but something that really pisses me off is how we had something like this system for elections for mayors and some other local positions.
The Supplementary Vote was used for all combined authority mayoral elections until the Elections Act 2022 abolished it. It was basically the Alternative Vote (Instant Runoff/Ranked Choice Voting) but limited to two choices: the top two candidates who received the most preferences would advance to a runoff which used the second choices. It’s similar to the French system but it’s all done on the same ballot instead over two separate votes.
The Tories had it in their manifesto to replace it with FPTP, and they did that through the EA2022. I knew they weren’t on board with changing parliamentary elections to a better system, but getting rid of (marginally better) established systems says a lot to me about what they think about democracy.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Can’t believe Farage is still a thing. Are we all really this collectively stupid? :(
Z3k3@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Farage should never have been a thing. But the media can’t seem to leave tge prick alone
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Also, if the system you use to make decisions is insanely unbalanced (FPTP), and you ask it insane questions (“should Nige be within shouting distance of any position of power?”) then the answers aren’t really worth taking seriously.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 week ago
Oh yes.
Reform recently took over my local county council. Then they closed a community centre.
Response from the Facebook Crazies? “Why have Labour done this?” 🤡