Reposted by Matt
Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played
![No-one reading this will be the least bit surprised by what I am saying, but these results present an immediate pressing need for electoral reform and for that reform to take place immediately. There is now no single argument against this measure, regardless of your political views or your ideological tendency. To stand against it is to stand against all sense of logic, all commitment to reason, against mathematics itself.
Look at the result in the Exeter St Loyes ward, to take one example of many. Conservatives came in third with 25.3% of the vote, Reform came in second with 25.5% and the Liberal Democrats won with 25.6% of the vote. As political scientist Rob Ford said: “Pure chaos. [First-past-the-post] fruit machine.” These kinds of results are utterly arbitrary. They remove any sense of meaning from the vote. They remove - and this should send a shiver down our democratic spines - any sense of will.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dr34ia4bis5gl7o5s45x7e5x/bafkreiffrlvt4oels47dn6aeg32ptp45i5btzodc3uyg6svccinbm7uoge)
