British Parliament would look very different if votes cast in the 2024 election were directly translated into seats.
But is proportional representation really more democratic than first past the post?
And do the British public actually want to change our voting system?
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Sunak cocked up by not introducing PR before the election. Then the Tories would have been better places afterwards than they are now.
Corrupt unfair system!
We want proportional representation
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No mention of the elephant in the room that two fifths of the registetered electorate thought allmthese parties were unworthy of there votes. A month later there are widespread riots on the streets of England. That's what happens when you have a parliament and media that misrepresent the people.
03:19 This guy is claiming that as time goes the number of parties elected to parliament increase with PR. This was not challenged by the journalist, even though Scotland has used PR since 1999 and has less parties in parliament now than it had the first election.
This is a pretty biased report on PR, not so subtlety favouring the status quo. One of the problems of UK democracy is that the media establishment is so conservative (with a small c).
It’s quite undemocratic. 61% of votes didn’t matter.
Absolutely absurd, as someone on the center left, 70% of the UK are NOT center left liberals 😂 lack of representation can only lead to social unrest. Any voting system would be better.
We need PR! And the people should get to choose who the PM is too
probably the only thing the Green and Reform parties can agree on
"First past the post produces stable government"
Conservative party 2015-2024: "hold my beer"
(2010-2015 was relatively stable, with, gasp, a coalition (get my fainting couch). Yeah, not the greatest government in history, but it was still the least bad part of 14 years of Tory rule, and you weren't making a claim about how good the government was, were you? You were only talking about stability so STOP CHANGING THE SUBJECT)
Why does it sound like Rachel Reeves is narrating this 😂
Get rid of the House of Lords first. They're your biggest leaches and the money can go to NHS as promised with Brexit by those in higher echelons.
There is nothing beneficial about that traditional bunch of bandits.
True to form, deceitful lie. England UUK (Un-United Kingdom) you are your own worst enemies.
Shackled to your caste system, make sure you got the Ps & Qs right. You can see if they been picking their nose by the angle.
If I'm feeling down, I watch a video on YouTube regarding Brexit. Especially about Spain; regarding those who were too stupid to get Spanish citizenship.
Ole, own goal!!!!
Proportional representation would've defiently strong armed the Tories into a coalition with Reform.
LibDems, Reform and Greens all won a lot of anti Tory votes. With PR these votes might not stick with the parties that won them this time.
Let’s not forget the UK rejected changing the voting system in 2011 via a referendum so if parties like ReformUK want to another referendum on this then guess what? You can ask the people twice.
No mention that we would have had Labour/ liberal coalition governments for most of the last 50 years, Maggie Thatcher would never have been elected for example.
No mention of the Scottish parliament which uses both systems. It actually works out quite fairly.
Nigel and his racists cannot have it both ways.
Look at the Brexit referendum: Total number of eligible voters – 46,500,001 number of voters who voted leave – 17,410,742 – that gives a percentage of eligible voters voting to leave as 37.44%. We left the EU on the say so of a minority of voters. So He and the Reform party cannot complain about the number of seats they get on the first past the post system. It was fine for them when it came to the Brexit referendum.
I would love to see a mixed system i call Maj-Min PR… each district elects 2 members… the district winner is the majority rep and the runner up is the minority rep
Proportional Representation is necessarily more democratic than First-past-the-post but change doesn't only come from elected representatives in government, it also comes from popular movements on the streets and organised labour in the workplace. Stand up to racism. Free Palestine.
We had a referendum on PR and the public was against it. If we have another referendum, then all referendum need to be opened such as Brexit and Scottish independence.
If there had been PR in 2019 it would have resulted in a Labour coalition and Brexit would not have happened, didn’t hear Nige whinging about PR when his Brexit party was standing aside to give Boris a landslide 🤔
3:38 is completely false.
In countries with proportional representation, each government tends to implement policies that are different from the previous one. A coalition government needs to satisfy, at least, the top priorities of a wide set of its citizens.
In first-past-the-post systems, you only need to keep 30% of of your voters happy – or somehow deluded to vote against their own interest. While, in PR systems, you need to have many more happy citizens, if you want to be in power.