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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 17:59:52 JST Aral Balkan

   • Richard Murphy

   “First past the post” in the UK is keeping people from voting for the party most likely to help tackle climate change.

   https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2023/09/13/first-past-the-post-is-an-exercise-in-undermining-democracy/

   Via @RichardJMurphy

   #UK #UKPol #climate #climateChange #climateCrisis #FPP #FirstPastThePost #democracy #greenParty #greens

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 18:12:05 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Potatoes Fall

     @potatoes_fall I’d love to say yes but it seems capitalism is the core value, not democracy these days.

   • Potatoes Fall (potatoes_fall@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 18:12:06 JST Potatoes Fall

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     @aral

     I sometimes wonder if democracy is at all still a core value of most Europeans.

     In Germany, votes for parties that get less than 5% are discarded. They are not re-assigned to another second choice. To no surprise, parties only seem to care about this when they get close to getting kicked out of parliament. Meanwhile the biggest party CDU has a D for democracy in their name, shameful.

   • Matt 🌻 (matt@oslo.town)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 19:41:24 JST Matt 🌻

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     • Richard Murphy

     @aral @RichardJMurphy The #UKLabour party conference voted to introduce #ProportionalRepresentation for General Elections - but #KierStarmer refuses to acknowledge it.

     https://labourlist.org/2022/09/conference-passes-motion-urging-labour-to-introduce-pr-for-general-elections/

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 19:44:53 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Matt 🌻
     • Richard Murphy

     @matt @RichardJMurphy How surprising. Otherwise seems to be such a principled and authentic young man.