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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 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Reform are literally the Tories, the Lib Dems side with whoever they think they can align with in order to get power so they're useless, and the Greens are just Labour without Blair. Oh and then there Your Party who have no real identity at all.

[–] RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

That's still 4 distinct parties + your party, and that's under a system that favours 2 parties and doesn't allow for much nuance between or with the parties.

STV would:

Allow people to vote for who they want
Allow parties to differentiate themselves behind a simple left/right spectrum
Allow people to vote for different factions within a party
Not punish independents

All of which would help differentiate the parties, which even by your own description are not the same unless you don't think Blairism has had any effect on the Labour party.