📣 Getting the Representation of the People Bill Right: Preventing Disinformation in UK Elections 📣
Thank you to everyone who joined our event in Parliament last night!
💬 Featuring a cross-party panel of MPs alongside @reformpoliticalads.bsky.social and @fullfact.org.
🚨 Experts warn Select Committee that First Past risks an election that is "simply indefensible".
Speaking to the Housing, Communities & Local Government Committee, Professors Toby James, Maria Sobolewska and Alan Renwick say government should now be looking seriously at electoral reform.
🚨"We do risk having an election next time round that is simply indefensible."
The flaws of FPTP are becoming impossible to ignore.
@profsob.bsky.social & @alanrenwick.bsky.social give evidence to the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee as part of its modernising elections inquiry 👇
⚠️Sir John Curtice says Labour and the Conservatives can no longer rely on First Past the Post
Asked by @danbloom1.bsky.social of @politico.com if Westminster's electoral system was tenable, Britain's leading polling expert said “Those who live by the sword can die by the sword”
#ElectoralReform
🌹 Former Labour Leader Lord Neil Kinnock calls for Proportional Representation!
In an interview with @emmaburnell.bsky.social for @thefabians.bsky.social & @labourlist.bsky.social on Monday, he said electoral reform was "crucial" to renew British democracy for the 21st century.
#FPTP #Elections
Great to see news coverage of York City Council's vote to support Proportional Representation for Westminster! 🎉
Congratulations to our brilliant local activists who helped make this happen.
"a pro-PR campaign is building within the Parliamentary Labour Party. Each MP involved is convinced that it won’t be long until something has to give."
✍️ @meganekenyon.bsky.social @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
#Labour4PR #ElectoralReform #Democracy #Westminster
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
💥 We're in the latest issue of Political Insight:
"The question is no longer whether our electoral system is under strain, but how much damage will be done to our democracy before it adapts to the political conditions it operates within."
Our Director of Policy and Public Affairs Alberto Smith👇
“If the foundations of our democratic system are left to rot, we will all suffer. Labour, as the party of democratic reform, has a responsibility to lead this conversation.”
Scott Arthur MP calls for Proportional Representation in @labourlist.bsky.social
labourlist.org/2026/03/abou...
“This is a chance for the government to listen and lead…
I was not elected by my constituents to idly stand by and defend a broken political system and failed status quo.”
Luke Akehurst MP calls for Proportional Representation in @politicshome.bsky.social
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
Great support for electoral reform and Proportional Representation in the letters im The Guardian.
Time is coming. Tide is turning. ⏰ 🌊
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
📑 In his speech about the Representation of the People Bill, @ollyglover.bsky.social quoted an open letter from 50+ academics, warning about the dangers of FPTP.
➡️ Read it here: www.politicshome.com/news/article...
It will cause unnecessary chaos and destabilise politics.
It's too complicated, people wouldn't know how to vote.
It's not a priority right now.
Those were some of the arguments used over a century ago against giving women the vote. Sounds familiar?
It’s time to end Britain’s first-past-the-post election lottery
“An electoral system should do two things: ensure that the majority rules and that significant minorities are adequately represented. First past the post achieves neither.”
#getPRdone
ft.trib.al/gkMxglI | opinion
compassonline.org.uk have produced an excellent article "Lifting the Lid on Britain’s Pressure Cooker Politics: How Inequality and Neoliberal Capture Broke First Past the Post" – and making it now totally inappropriate www.compassonline.org.uk/wp-content/u...
💥 Professor Vernon Bogdanor writes for @financialtimes.com:
"An electoral system should do two things: ensure that the majority rules and that significant minorities are adequately represented.
First Past the Post achieves neither."
Today we are spreading the word about a fairer voting system in Stockton Heath, Warrington. #PRnow
We can recommend ditching First Past the Post and change the US election system to become proportional representation.
Big win. 🏆
"They've called it the Representation of the People Bill but they're refusing to let the people actually be represented."
Well said, @femi-oluwole.bsky.social 👏👏👏
Labour letting 16-year-olds vote is the right thing, for the wrong reasons.
Starmer & Farage once BOTH argued for a fair voting system, but as soon as they got close to power, they wanted it all for themselves!
Representation of the People Bill #VotesAt16
📣 "We no longer live in a two-party system, and if we continue to have an electoral system that doesn't acknowledge that fact, we will have, as Professor @robfordmancs.bsky.social says, elections that lead to even more chaotic and unpredictable results."
👇 @chriscurtis94.bsky.social
During the Second Reading of the Representation of the People Bill, MP after MP got up to point out what's missing from it: fixing the voting system.
The problems with FPTP can no longer be ignored - and neither can the growing calls for PR. 📣
Here are just a few highlights:
“In Monday’s debate, Labour MPs were among many calling for a national commission on electoral reform…
The PM is pulled from pillar to post and his in-tray is no doubt full; still, this should be near the top of it.”
✍️ @pollytoynbee.bsky.social
@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
🗳️"I think this Bill would have been a great opportunity to have a kind of commission... to make sure that people feel that their vote counts."
📣 @catsmithmp.bsky.social used her speech in the Representation of the People Bill debate to endorse our plan for a National Commission on Electoral Reform.
🗳️"Our First Past the Post voting system was outdated decades ago, [it's] a millstone around the neck of our democratic life."
💬 Our Vice-Chair @lisasmartmp.bsky.social during last night's Second Reading debate of the Representation of the People Bill 👇
📜 The House of Commons just debated the Representation of the People Bill
💥 Great to see more Labour MPs joining the call for a National Commission on Electoral Reform
📺 @patrickhurley.bsky.social @catsmithmp.bsky.social @chriscurtis94.bsky.social & @jamesnaish.bsky.social
🌹 #Labour4PR
"This Labour government can still build consensus for an alternative, but it must do so urgently.
We need a national commission on electoral reform"
✍️ Beccy Cooper MP & Tim Roca MP
#Democracy
@drbeccycoopermp.bsky.social @timrocamp.bsky.social @politics.co.uk
www.politics.co.uk/mp-comment/2...
Faced with an electoral system that is turning British elections into a gamble with the country’s future, MPs are calling for a National Commission on Electoral Reform to examine the electoral system and recommend a modern alternative.
"The Westminster system is crumbling. Labour must rebuild it – or we will find ourselves under the rubble."
✍️ Beccy Cooper MP & Tim Roca MP
🌹 #Labour4PR #ElectoralReform #Democracy
@drbeccycoopermp.bsky.social @timrocamp.bsky.social @politics.co.uk
www.politics.co.uk/mp-comment/2...
