UK Politics

73 readers

9 users here now

General Discussion for politics in the UK.
Please don't post to both !uk_politics@feddit.uk and !unitedkingdom@feddit.uk .
Pick the most appropriate, and put it there.

Posts should be related to UK-centric politics, and should be either a link to a reputable news source for news, or a text post on this community.

Opinion pieces are also allowed, provided they are not misleading/misrepresented/drivel, and have proper sources.

If you think "reputable news source" needs some definition, by all means start a meta thread. (These things should be publicly discussed)

Posts should be manually submitted, not by bot. Link titles should not be editorialised.

Disappointing comments will generally be left to fester in ratio, outright horrible comments will be removed.
Message the mods if you feel something really should be removed, or if a user seems to have a pattern of awful comments.

!ukpolitics@lemm.ee appears to have vanished! We can still see cached content from this link, but goodbye I guess! :'(

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

tom@feddit.uk

GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk

flamingos@feddit.uk

frankPodmore@slrpnk.net

Ed Davey: ‘Tactical voting can lock Tories out of power for a generation’ (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 year ago by theinspectorst@kbin.social to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

31 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Lib Dem leader says people lending their votes to rival parties could shut the door on Conservatives at Westminster for years to come

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Germany's version of PR keeps local MPs

[–] theinspectorst@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The UK's versions of PR do too. We literally have in the UK right now:

STV elections for the Northern Irish assembly and Scottish local government; and
AV+ elections for the Scottish and Welsh Parliaments.

Both are ways of delivering proportionality and geographic representation at the same time (though STV is vastly superior - AV+ delivers proportionality by having two categories of representatives, whereas STV has both features incorporated into a single system).

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Agreed. Yeah AV+ is essentially what the Germans have too

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure Mixed Member PR and AV are that close to be honest....

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh I might just be confusing them