Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 27/02/20264) Don’t say only Labour can beat Reform if - thanks to the leadership's own self-sabotage - it’s not true. Because it will be true in many other seats, and now voters won’t believe us. 548237
Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 27/02/2026But fundamentally, this shows why first past the post isn’t fit for purpose. If the government doesn’t introduce proportional voting, a far right party could win the next general election outright on a minority of the vote. 27703105
Colin Dunn 🏴 @indyposterboy.scot · 27/02/2026Isn't that pretty much what happened in the last UK general election? Though I strongly agree on PR. 010
Dan (this/that) 🇪🇺🇵🇹📷 @chopalley.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Labour has been promising PR for literally over ONE HUNDRED YEARS but forget about it once in office. You're an MP. Stop pretending you are a helpless bystander to 'the government'. 0110
jusw.bsky.social @jusw.bsky.social · 27/02/2026That exactly describes what happened at the 2024 election! Norman Tebbit was more left wing than the current Labour party. 110
Helsbels @helenus3.bsky.social · 27/02/2026This! It's been obvious for years that proportional representation needs to be introduced, so why hasn't Labour done it? It's the only 'fair' option. I believe the majority of the country, increasingly disillusioned with politics, would welcome it. 261
DBurx @dburx.bsky.social · 27/02/2026The opposite, it showed the voters making sensible tactical choices - just not the one you wanted, which given on Gaza and immigration policy Lab = Reform is not a surprise. If Labs effort and achievement come the next election is a new voting system, they are guaranteed to lose. 000
Mark @jilx.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Already stated as in favour of Proportional Representation: TUC, NEC, CLP, APPG for Fair Elections Determined not to honour the lent votes in the last General Election with Proportional Representation: Keir Starmer 010
Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 27/02/2026This possibility inevitably makes tactical voting essential in some seats, and Labour is playing with fire. 2434112
Christopher Murray @etrino.bsky.social · 27/02/2026In Ireland we have proportional representation because the British government introduced it after Sinn Féin took 69.5% of the Irish seats with 47% of the vote in the 1918 general election. electoral-reform.org.uk/how-did-irel...electoral-reform.org.ukHow did the Republic of Ireland get proportional representation?Today, almost every election held on the island of Ireland uses the Single Transferable Vote (STV). Bar elections for the 18 Westminster seats from Northern Ireland – every other elec 010
Alex Vijatov @alexvv.bsky.social · 27/02/2026FOTP is only a relevant system if your country has a 2 party system. It still works after a fashion if a 3rd party emerges. We are provisionally looking at 5 parties fighting for seats at the next GE. An undemocratic result is almost guaranteed. 100
Plain Lincoln @plainlincoln.bsky.social · 27/02/2026"...win the next general election outright on a minority of the vote" Like every single govt in the UK since 1931?🤔 010
aeneasist.bsky.social @aeneasist.bsky.social · 27/02/2026But keep in mind that proportional representation can enable authoritarian regimes in sclerotic situations : look at Israel: a beacon of democracy shifted towards ethno-fascism by the chicanery of coalition politics 200
aeneasist.bsky.social @aeneasist.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Agreed. In fact, it’s become an emergency to do so as hybrid warfare and its Overton Window shift are making an authoritarian take over by design more likely. Starmer has a huge majority: why doesn’t he introduce a bill for proportional representation to protect democracy? Who is advising him?!?! 010
Saddletramp🇪🇺 @saddletramp.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Indeed. In the 2024 GE, Reform received over 4m votes but only 5 seats. Under a PR system, they would have likely had closer to 80 or 90 seats. Not enough to form a govt. Yet Labour won a landslide with just 34%. That’s why Reform now want FPTP. They only need 34% and they will probably get it! 090
Ash @dine0saur.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Well said, Nadia. Extra point: the perfect opportunity for the PLP to stop using Xitter as its gauge of public opinion and to reach the general public. It's not fit for purpose; it's just leading it up the garden path. 050
Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Fundamentally, this shows how disconnected ordinary people are with a party political voting system that descends to a popularity contest. (Though, in this case: haud semper errat fama; aliquando et eligit: the people don’t always err when they choose, Tacitus, Agricola, as taught in a comp.) 000
UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.northsky.social · 27/02/2026True, but were you saying that when you were winning? 🤔 0151
Trevor Stables 🇫🇷🔶🏳️🌈🇪🇺 @trevor0257.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Exactly. Its way past the time for PR. 000
johnjakson19.bsky.social @johnjakson19.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Agreed. PR is the way forward but which party will enact the legislation? BTW, Labour won the last election outright on a minority of the vote. See the problem? 140
Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 27/02/2026Still time to pass this reform, and we now know Labour has everything to gain from it because the alternative is a wipeout. Get to work! 170
PJ Coffey - They/Them @homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 27/02/2026In 97, Blair campaigned on PR. In the 2010s the Conservatives outmaneuvered the Lib Dems on AV. Given that track record, which party do you think is going to honestly make the change? 020
Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 27/02/2026This is Labour’s second chance in recent history to modernise our electoral system. Yet the current bill has basically nothing about the Commons. It’s embarrassing. And, really, *any* party winning a massive majority on a third of the vote isn’t great, including Labour. 1160
Tom Hogg 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @tomhogg.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Is this only just becoming apparent to you? It's been galloping over the horizon since Labour won the last election with a large majority based on just 33% of the vote. 130
NikkSinc 📚 @nikksinc.bsky.social · 27/02/2026bsky.app/profile/nikk...NikkSinc 📚@nikksinc.bsky.socialIt’s not democracy when we have to vote tactically to avoid the worst option becoming reality. 000
Ghost of Hope 🏳️⚧️ @grayfaceghost.northsky.social · 27/02/2026A far right party is already in power. And you're a member. And an MP for it. 000
