Sign in

Tom Beard

@tom-b2.bsky.social
27 followers 27 following 71 posts

Causes NSS, ERS and MVM; campaigns against Thames Water, lying in politics & acknowledge climate change. For info. on failures and risks of FPTP see failed-fptp.netlify.app A view that everything can be represented as process & data, even us.

PostsRepliesMedia
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Lets be positive for once: – instead of calling them “Hate Marches “ for political gain – how about “Semite Support Marches” where Christians, Muslims, Jews and Atheist can show support for Palestinians and sympathetic Israelis, who are also attacked by the Israeli Government.
A Support Palestine march – and suggestion to call them “Semite Support Marches”
100
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Let’s hope so – but US Strategy includes supporting right-wing European parties e.g. this image of Vance and Orbán 7April26. Hungary’s system gives some immunity to interference, but ours under FPTP is an open goal to US intervention. FPTP is not only dis-proportional, it’s a political security risk
The US National Security Strategy includes supporting right-wing European parties, this is an example and is an image of US vice-president JD Vance supporting Viktor Orbán in Budapest  7 April 2026
000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
US National Security Strategy includes supporting right-wing European parties e.g. this image of Vance and Orbán 7April26. Hungary’s system gives some immunity to interference, but ours under FPTP is an open goal to US intervention. FPTP is not only dis-proportional, it’s a political security risk.
The US National Security Strategy includes supporting right-wing European parties, this is an example and is an image of US vice-president JD Vance supporting Viktor Orbán in Budapest  7 April 2026.
000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Donald Juvenile Trump has been awarded several prizes in lieu of the Nobel Peace Prize to keep him sweet, including this sick commemorative plaque from Netanyahu. Is it time to award him the ? ? War Prize - for services to Climate Change, and the removal of humanity, so leaving a peaceful world? 😕
Commemorative plaque from Netanyahu to Trump to celebrate the mass haphazard killing and injury of Lebanese people via exploding pages in September 2024
000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
The Rycroft Review says: foreign interests seek to interfere in our politics / in our newly volatile politics even marginal impacts could have a disproportionate bearing on democracy. However, it says nothing about the vulnerability and risks of using FPTP in this situation – a glaring omission.
A graphic representation of the susceptibility and risks of using FPTP with “at least 5 or 6 parties in serious contention.  In our newly volatile politics even marginal impacts could have a disproportionate bearing on democratic outcomes” Quotes from Rycroft Review March 2026.
The risks are shown by comparing PR that gives a balance of votes to elected MP, but under FPTP the balance is broken as seats can be won with a very small vote shares and so vunerable to interference.
011
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The Hillsborough Law (Public Office Accountability Bill) will make it a criminal offence for PMs and cabinet ministers to deliberately mislead the public – but not backbench MPs or peers. Over 30 MPs back Luke Myer’s amendment to apply it to all members of both houses of parliament. Does your MP?
Faye Brown (https://x.com/FayeBrownSky) of Sky News gives excellent coverage at https://stoplyinginpolitics.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fcdcd9a84174e6e6cdafe6c36&id=36652f9c7c&e=7add1a870b that the Hillsborough Law does not apply to backbench MPs or peers
000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Labour was elected in 2024 on 33.7% vote share, but the figure includes ALL the Labour wish list votes. Party MPs, derived from a distortion of voters’ wish lists, represent us, not the party wish list. The vote share electing Labour MPs was 26.4% - the chart shows vote shares for all MPs similarly.
Pie chart showing the % Vote Share behind MPs in 2024 General Election in bands of 10%, starting at 20% and ending at 80%.  39% of MPs are in the 30 – 40 % band and 46% in the 40 – 50 % band
000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
1930 propaganda was a poster, now it’s a social media clip, with an irrelevant attention-seeking “poster boy”. Prior to infamous image, the clip gives a plausible (but debunked) explanation of State Election Fraud via “forensic access to a DS200 tabulator” - that's the deliberate propaganda message
Comparison of 1930 and 2026 propaganda. The 2026 clip describes perceived State Election Fraud and supports Trump’s campaign for the federal government and the Republican Party to "take over" and "nationalize" the administration of U.S. elections. Here a Trump image is added to avoid re publishing the racism
000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The hung parliament of 2010 gave us a coalition government, and prevented an EU Referendum by the Tories. But we stuck with FPTP - so Cameron, with a small majority in 2015, had to placate his ERG, gave them a referendum, and destroyed the country. If we had changed to PR, and more coalitions . . ?
PR possibility resulting in us remaining in the EU and reducing some of our problems
000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
We shot ourselves in the foot with Brexit, now we’re hanging ourselves with FPTP - why? With US strategy to help right-wing parties in EU & UK, unregulated political donations allowing “dark money” donations, topped off with a hackable electoral system, we do it because of failed-fptp.netlify.app
Options available in eamination of why First Past The Post has failed us
010
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
What’s wrong with the First Past The Post voting system? Is it fit for purpose in today’s political scene? Try this Challenge - then go to makevotesmatter.org.uk/wp-content/u... for Actual Results and an explanation - you may be very surprised.
Table of UK general election results with request for related vote share
011
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Re FPTP Challenge Bonus Question - once FPTP could be said to be appropriate, but now it’s hopelessly inappropriate for our modern widespread political choices. It also gives us one of the most unrepresentative democracies worldpopulationreview.com/country-rank...
Steady rise of the diversity of Parliament, but we still using a two party voting system
000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
50 years of using a 2 party voting system with multiple parties. It’s more a Poker Game than Democratic Voting - and the outcomes are becoming even more uncertain as FPTP struggles with more party options. QR code re An Index by Country = worldpopulationreview.com/countries
50 years of election results showing more a Poker Game than Democratic Voting
000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
More implications of using a 2 party voting system with multiple parties. The 2024 GE gave many MPs elected on very low vote share, but you wouldn’t know it. For one reason we pretend that they are elected with a Majority when in fact it was a “negative Majority” or Minority.
2024 general election showing low MP voter support, although hidden
by incorect use of term Majority
000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
We’re still using a 2 party voting system with an ever increasing number of possible parties. A result is we must pretend that MPs are elected with a Majority when in fact it’s a “negative Majority” or Minority. The correct term would generally be Margin of Victory - over the 2nd placed candidate.
Comparison of parliamentary and constituency majority
000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Peter Kelner (political commentator etc.) on LBC 26 May 17:10 ish said: “here’s the joker in the pack, we have a FPTP voting system which is basically designed for 2 party competition, when you put in 4,5 6 parties . . . leads to very very weird results”. See image re how we fool ourselves all OK.
000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Plse sign up & share to stop madness Windrush Against Sewage Pollution – general info. Sign up for news www.windrushwasp.org/our-work Surfers Against Sewage - Be part of the movement www.sas.org.uk/take-action/ Green Peace - Sign to stop sewage pollution www.greenpeace.org.uk/take-action/...
000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Please sign up and share to stop the madness We Own It - Take Thames Water into public ownership weownit.org.uk/act-now/brin... Don’t Pay for Dirty Water - Join the boycott – and advise on doing so. extinctionrebellion.uk/act-now/camp...
000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
T Water again pumping sewage into Misbourne and The Chalfonts. rb.gy/zw14lv It says Environment Agency allows discharge during periods of heavy rainfall. Should be exceptional heavy rain. Attached shows frequent discharge. We pay for a service using fly-tipping - in other situation it’s prosecutable
000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
If we fall out with the US our very expensive Trident deterrent will have problems. The US could halt access to maintenance or resupply of missiles - we do have some but they rely on US made inertial guidance systems needing servicing, calibration, and software updates by the US (GPTChat). 🥺⁉️
000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
When will some kind person help Donald, and the World, and care for him at Mar-a-Lago?
000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
6/2/25 Netanyahu gave, and Trump accepted, a commemorative exploding pager – sick. Worldcrunch.com say: “Israel Killing People With Their Own Everyday Devices Is A War Crime — And A Threat To Us All” Plus Gaza Rivera - where does the Holocaust sit with all this? What's US voters given the world?
010
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
When discussing Reform UK & Farage, Lewis Goodall on LBC referred to a Political Market. But - whereas the Commercial Market is regulated by the Advertising Standards Authority, any nonsense is OK in the Political Market. So why not “No more 'freedom to lie': follow New Zealand's example” ⁉️
010
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
A follow up to River Roding “aggregate of discharges & not during extreme rainfall” - this chart shows discharges from each of the 25 locations, all discharge but some very much worse than others. You’’ll have a hard job Sadiq.
000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Mayor Sadiq Khan wants the River Roding, a major Thames tributary running through Essex, cleaned up for recreation & swimming – good luck with that. It’s a favorite sewage dumping place for Thames Water with 25 discharge locations – chart is aggregate of discharges & not during extreme rainfall
041
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Following a period of heavy rain . . ! ? ! . . Their system is incontinent – the chart shows regular discharges, this is not all due to heavy rain. Are you / we complicit in paying to fly-tip excrement?
010
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Why do we pay water companies to fly-tip our waste? But how to prevent it? Storing increasing levels & frequency of storm water (excluding floods) for latter processing isn’t practical. Mitigating in rural areas is more feasible than urban – tackle at source, a modern version of night-soil-man?🤨😕
000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Thames Water is updating 15 Sewage Treatment Works to cope with population growth (Business Plan 2025-30), but not Climate Change until 2030. Wantage is one of the works, and as chart shows it’s struggling with current levels of storm surface water now – why no plans to address this NOW?
000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Who in their right mind would hand over an Essential National Service to the free market - and then not even regulate it properly?
000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
From studying Thames Water’s 2025-30 Business Plan & email discussions with them, it appears Climate Change is not included in plans for 15 target sites, despite much talk about CC. They are following a Benign Climate Change Scenario until the last decade of the planning period – what about NOW?
011
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Are we a Democracy? Gallagher indx is based on a simple measure of the difference between % votes and % seats. The better the match, lower the score, indicating a High Level of Voter Representation. Our last election gave us our highest score yet, but because we use the wrong system it’s always high
000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Disappearing BBC news item & the Party that should. I’m sure this chart was on News at Ten 9 Dec, but has now disappeared from iPplayer. Remember Cameron placating the ERG etc. with a referendum in 2016? It’s destroyed the country and Conservatives – why are they even in opposition?
000
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
So 3 million want another GE and FPTP luck-dip now. Our results have little to do with voter numbers, see image, it’s about the mix & concentration of parties on offer. We have 1 of lowest Gallegher index (degree of non-representation) in world the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallagh... .
010
Tom Beard @tom-b2.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Thames Water’s EDM map (www.thameswater.co.uk/edm-map) not looking good (10:00 24nov). 179 Combined Sewage Overflows discharging over the last 48 hours. OK it rained a bit last night, but that wasn’t an excused exceptional once in 30, or even 10, year even.
000