The UK's Election Was Its Most Uneven EVER

We are truly blessed to live in a society with the same electoral system as Belarus

Should me vote matter less if I live in Slough? Yes.

I feel like the "I'm not gonna vote because they'll get a landslide" effect is much less important in marginal seats because people in marginal seats know that votes are important relative to safe seats.

Don't worry. Here in germany we have an actual legit voting system, yet our politics are shit anyways as well.

Proportional Representation seems to be in demand these days.

To counter the statement "I don't vote for a coalition," I would say that in a country with proportional representation, voting for a coalition is an inherent part of the process. When I cast my vote, I understand that the party I support will back a leader from another party, and that's acceptable to me. They even campaign on supporting another party leader. What matters is that my chosen party can influence the agenda. In a system where no single party normally can secure a majority, voters are aware that forming a coalition is the only path forward. I believe that better decisions arise from compromise and collaboration.

The idea of FPTP is that every MP fights for the interests of their constituency, but that's not really possible with the concept of "whip". Either remove the whip or remove FPTP. Everything else is dishonest

How can anyone still argue that First Past The Post creates stability after the past 14 years? How representative is a government that got 33% of the vote but occupies 66% of parliament?

I live in Slough, but due to boundary changes recently, I come under Windsor.

I spent the entire video trying to figure out what Toycat's preferred party was

At least add a second election round for God's sake

Although I do believe in vote reform, and took part in campaigning for the 2011 AV Referendum, I have to say I'm really not a fan of how suddenly there's so much demand. 2 weeks ago I'd have struggled to make anyone give a s**t about it online. Seems to me the upset is manufactured by certain right wing populist forces who got brutally disadvantaged by it. Left wing complains about unfair bias in FPTP. cricket noises for decades Right wing complains about unfair bias in FPTP. OUTRAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"No one has pride for Slough" tell that to David Brent

It's a bit more complicated... this election actually reflects the anti-tory vote quite accurately. About 75% of people voted against the tories and about 75% of the seats went to non-tories. In a lot of ways this is the most representative result ever (which says something quite damming about the electoral system in its own way). If it wasn't for vote splitting by the green party and the lib dems then the tories would have formed almost zero governments since 1992. In every previous election a green vote was a tory vote, a lib dem vote was a tory vote. The thing that ha made this election more representative is that reform split the right wing vote in the same way that the greens and lds usually split the center/left vote.

Never thought I'd be learning British politics from the same YouTuber who did the Minecraft videos I used to watch as a kid, absolutely wild timeline.

As a kiwi, who moved here from the UK, yes, electoral reform (in the UK) would be fantastic. MMP isn't perfect, but it solves a lot of the issues. To massively oversimplify, any wasted votes for your local MP go into a sort of slush pool that assigns extra seats to parties in proportion to how much of the country voted for that party.

I dont know much of anything about coalitions. I just know that "coalition" is a cool word. So we should have more governments that need to form coalitions, so i can say "coalition" more. I doubt itll ever happen in the us though. So sad.

Actual seats vs the number of seats if we had proportional representation: Labour: 411 vs 219 Conservatives: 121 vs 154 Lib Dem: 72 vs 79 SNP: 9 vs 16 Sinn Fein: 7 vs 5 Reform: 5 vs 93 DUP: 5 vs 4 Green: 4 vs 42 Plaid Cymru: 4 vs 4

4:46 if you speak of Major Economies: Switzerland despite being known for our direct democratic systems have on average a very low turnout: in the last mayor elections 2023 on 46.7% of swiss adults went to vote, since we have a low population, this makes it that only 2,6 Million people actually voted.

never though id be seeing ibxtoycat talking about first past the post or elections