Chris Mason you wrote “Never let anyone tell you your vote doesn't count”. Sadly that is the case for thousands of people who vote for the losing side in seats that never change hands. There's a system where every vote counts - it's called PR and it's getting very popular.

Braving the rain in Birmingham to promote PR

Leafleting in Birkdale in the swing seat of Southport on Saturday, where all the main parliamentary candidates except Conservative support changing to a PR system. #MakeVotesMatter #EqualVotesNow #PropRep

'If you had asked me at 16, I would have had no idea about FPTP, let alone reform. However, despite a lack of understanding (...), I can say with complete certainty that young people want change.'

PR advocate Lula told us why she got involved in the movement for equal votes!

Thanks to all who came to meet in town to show that #ProportionalRepresentationLoves
... Every Vote Counting!

Make Votes Matter

#MakeVotesMatter #PRIsADoorStepIssue in #Southport

Part of the Make Votes Matter Sefton & West Lancs team out leafletting in #Birkdale #birkdalevillageuk #southportuk last weekend.

Plenty of doorstep interest!
Southport Labour @SeftonLibDems Sefton Green Party Make Votes Matter

From Sayeeda Warsi to Owen Jones, figures from across the spectrum are expressing sentiments of political homelessness shared by much of the population.

Our broken voting system is failing us. We need #ProportionalRepresentation !

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📘 The #StrongAndStable report provides a full comparison of various stability metrics across a range of comparable democracies.

🔗 Visit Make Votes Matter's website to read it in full: makevotesmatter.org.uk/news/2024/3/13…

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📊 New research by Make Votes Matter shows there's no evidence that Proportional Representation leads to political instability.

In fact, on 8 out of 10 measures of stability, democracies with PR outperform those with First Past the Post.

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theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

The national campaign for #proportionalrepresentation is gearing up

12 organisations so far are signed up, including:

Compass
@ElectoralReform
LCER
Lib Dems for Electoral Reform 🔶️ #FBPPR
Make Votes Matter

We are looking to recruit two key people for the campaign: a convenor and a coordinator

'PR has returned New Zealand’s workers, and their working conditions, to the heart of the national conversation' - Rob Ford

🗓 Hear Rob's expert take on the trade union case for electoral reform at next month's Politics for the Many event

⏲ 6pm, 16 April
labourforanewdemocracy.org.uk/event-listings…

💥 'To truly deliver transformational change in this country, Labour must address the flaws in our voting system & build greater levels of trust with the electorate'

👏 Great piece by Jessica Toale, PPC for Bournemouth West in The Fabian Society

#Labour4PR 🌹
fabians.org.uk/restoring-trus…

'By changing our electoral system and introducing PR we will be giving power back to local communities & restoring trust in politics.' Jessica Toale in The Fabian Society

🇬🇧 UK has the lowest trust in politics in the G7

🏛️ PR is essential to restoring trust in democracy

#Labour4PR 🌹

'If we want to change our economy, we must also change our politics'

Keir Starmer is right: it's no coincidence our political system has delivered so much inequality

Labour must address this in government - starting with our 'flawed' voting system

🌹  #Labour4PR

Join us on Wednesday 24th April for our next discussion, Proportional Representation - 'Where to from here'

labourforelectoralreform.org.uk/where-to-from-…

“Low turnout is our biggest issue in London… Changes to the electoral system for Mayors - the Tories did it very quietly… FPTP is a challenge to us.”
Len Duvall AM on how the Tories have tried to rig the voting system in their favour for local & mayoral elections.

#Labour4PR 🌹

The Tories got 44% of votes but 56% of seats in our archaic First-Past-The-Post voting system and so could implement policies against our will.

We need a better politics where parties collaborate to find solutions to long-term issues.

#ChangeTheVotingSystem
#MakeVotesMatter

Another muddy Woking parkrun again this morning.

Lovely to bump into the unstoppable Mary! 😊😊😊 Canalside Community Fridge Woking Environment Action ...etc!

#KeepMovingForPR to show PR is a #DoorstepDemand

Make Votes Matter

The Charity Commission is facing a legal challenge by MPs over its failure to investigate campaigning by a thinktank that questions climate science. ⁦Layla Moran 🔶🕊️⁩ ⁦Clive Lewis MP⁩ ⁦Caroline Lucas⁩ are supported by the Good Law Project. theguardian.com/environment/20…

Any Proportional Representation system is better than FPTP - our adversaries think we will fight internally over which system is best but most of us agree on this basic principle and would support a citizens assembly determining the right system to switch to