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Watch my speech on reforming our voting system

  • Mar 6
  • 1 min read

๐ƒ๐ข๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ง๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐ž-๐ฉ๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐š๐ฃ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ง๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐žโ€™๐ฏ๐ž ๐ก๐š๐ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ—๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ“ ๐ฌ๐ž๐œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐š ๐ฆ๐š๐ฃ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฏ๐จ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ?


And that the last election was the most disproportional in modern times. Just 34% of voters opted for Labour, yet they came away with 62% of the seats.


๐“๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐š๐œ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฏ๐จ๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ ๐๐ข๐ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ฌ๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐จ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐ก๐ข๐ ๐ก ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ž ๐๐ข๐ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ข๐ญ.


That is why I want to see a commission launched which could bring forward a proportional voting system to make votes matter again.



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