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More than 60 Labour MPs call for review of UK voting system (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by Apepollo11@lemmy.world to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

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As far as I can tell, this is referring to this proposed amendment of the Representation of the People Bill:

https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/4080/stages/20676/amendments/10035247

So, not quite a petition for getting rid of FPTP per-se, but proposing an independent body is set up to determine the fitness for purpose of the current system, and suggest ways to make it fairer.

There's a little reading-between-the-lines needed.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Wasn't this literally in labour's manifesto? Along with a bunch of other things that completely failed to implement.

It's really weird, Starmer seems to understand what is actually wanted by the people, and what he needs to promise in order to win a vote, but then doesn't seem to understand that he needs to actually implement any of it in order to retain power. I am genuinely confused by how he's playing this.

[–] Cherry@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

Because as in most political establishments, they did a deal with the devil. The ghouls in the background who are amassing power and collaborating with the media. And once they are elected they are owned. They were placed there...they can be as easily removed.

And really why should they do whats right for the people? we have let them backtrack and backtrack. If you tolerate this...

[–] Apepollo11@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I know Starmer used electoral reform as a platform when campaigning to become party leader, but I don't think it was in the actual manifesto when elections rolled around.

But you're right - he definitely seems to know what people want, and I'm as baffled by you by some of the choices he's made once in power.

[–] Brummbaer@pawb.social 0 points 1 day ago

Starmer is some kind of sock puppet to get the things done the tories could never have got through.