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Why we need electoral reform in this parliament, and how we deliver it.

Could it happen in this parliament if there is a realisation that the parties of the right have no internal democracy and could stitch up a stand-aside announcement at the last minute? Farage did it in 2019... ewanhoyle.substack.com/p/why-we-nee... Is such an outcome a tolerable risk?

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Andy Burnham has promised electoral reform in the next manifesto. We need to persuade him to act now.

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Well I think it's realistic. Good night.

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The Perils of Proportional Representation for Ethnic Minorities

You're talking about proportional representation. I'm talking about instant run-off voting for single-member constituencies. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... It batters the far-right in an entirely fair, and predictable way.

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Two arguments about ethnic minorities run through the debate over replacing first past the post. One promises that proportional representation would represent minorities better; the other worries tha...

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...the agenda they are pushing becomes pointless.

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Ranked preference polls will change the way the media landscape operates. They think there is a demand for far-right friendly content, and they think backing these parties will help their funders. Once they know half of voters hate the line they're pushing, and it won't help the far-right get in...

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...antibiotics will cure a bacterial infection. You're saying leeches won't.

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That was proportional to first preferences. We don't know what people's ranked preferences were at that time. We know what people's ranked preferences look like now. They show ranked choice voting would batter the far-right hard in every country I could find data for. I'm saying the right...

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It’s time to get TUFF on the far-right.

If anyone wants to James Watson the f*** out of me finding the evidence suggesting that ranked choice voting probably prevents fascism... please do. I'm tired, and I probably don't have the skills or experience to take this forward properly. ewanhoyle.substack.com/p/its-time-t...

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Favourability polling shows ranked choice voting to be The Universal Fascism Firewall.

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Weird Alex @jackalpants.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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European Greens @europeangreens.eu · 05/10/2026

It spooked people unnecessarily in a way the leadership probably would rather it didn't. It's much closer to acceptable on the spectrum of motion titles over which the party has no control, but it should have been a warning they acted upon.

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Our statement on the recent Green Party of England and Wales motion 'Zionism is Racism'. europeangreens.eu/news/egp-pos...

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Can confirm he has actually liked this tweet. 🫣

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I think the fact that the party leadership can't influence the content and titles of motions, and there isn't a democratically elected conference committee that decides whether they get accepted for debate, is going to keep causing serious problems while the membership has a motivated hard left.

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...give the new party that buffer they need to deter extremists from joining, while they establish there is a demand for a professional green party of the socially liberal left.

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It doesn't fix the fact that their constitution simply isn't fit for purpose. The MPs and leadership team should leave and start a new party with a proper constitution. The Lib Dem constitution works fine, probably because they aren't at the end of any political spectrum. The legacy GPEW should...

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The Lib Dems are firmly in the progressive bloc. The right bloc is much the leakier, with half of Tory supporters having a progressive party as their 2nd pref (mostly Lib Dem). See below. Tory+Reform 2nd preferences are much lower than their 1st prefs.

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The poll was with YouGov btw

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...a socially liberal green party of the left. They will not be successful as far-left authoritarian ranters. If they want an electoral strategy that's infinitely superior to "stand everywhere, target 4 seats" 🤦‍♂️...the Shifting Stands pact with the Lib Dems gives them control over the next election.

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...works very well for a democratic party that isn't dominated by extreme, factional members. The current Green leadership could do much worse than copying and pasting the majority of that constitution, and leaving much of their new membership in the GPEW. The Green MPs can be very successful as..

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...tactical vote and pushed Labour into single figures polling by May. I suspect they deliberately downplayed their support because they knew they'd completely lost control of the direction of the party. That, or their CEO and Campaigns people are incompetent. The Lib Dem constitution...

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...them listen, you just need to burn it down and rebuild somewhere else with people you can trust. I conducted a poll in March this year that showed the Greens had a 10-point lead in voters' first preferences over Labour. If they'd gone public with it, they could have become the progressive...

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I genuinely think the MPs and leaders need to leave the party and start again with a new constitution. This is just a natural progression from "abolish landlords" at the last conference. If, as the leaders of the party, you can't tell the members not to do shameful or awkward things and have...

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The MPs have the option of quitting the party en masse (there aren't that many of you to persuade) and starting a new party with a constitution that is fit for purpose. This will keep happening until you do, and you'll keep failing the British people by being an unserious option.

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The MPs should leave the party and form a new one with a proper constitution.

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The MPs should leave the party and form a new one with a proper constitution that would prevent this dumb shit.

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CREEPYpasta ben @pastaben.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The only meeting I went to, the chair of the local party freely stated to me that he was about to be kicked out of Labour for antisemitism when he left. Quite a welcome to the party, that. 😔

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you have to see this

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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Is that little Bobby J at the front?

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It means voters still have to play tactical guessing games because they need to work out who will be in the top two, and then make sure they give at least their second preference to one of them. And that becomes really tricky in genuinely three-way or four-way races

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WAKE UP!! The people want woke!

...before he was kicked out for antisemitism. What a first impression! They, and the Lib Dems are completely failing social liberals dismayed by Labour’s moral cowardice. ewanhoyle.substack.com/p/wake-up-th...

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A coalition of Greens and Lib Dems is the favoured outcome for the next election. Let's make it happen.

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...and I would have told them their conference was a shambles and they needed to adopt something like the Lib Dem constitution to retain some semblance of control over their growing party. I went to the local party AGM and a bunch were Labour refugees. The co-chair told me he left Labour...

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I joined the Greens after realising voting intention polls were underestimating their true support by 6-13 points. I did a ranked preference poll that showed them 10 points clear of Labour in first preferences in March. I applied to be a political strategy consultant for them earlier this year...

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