Open Britain

🗣️ “We haven’t seen him!” ❌

☀️ We visited Clacton-on-Sea last month, a year on from the general election, to ask them about their MP - Nigel Farage. 👔

🎤 Their response…’where is he?!’ 🎥

#OpenBritain #DemocracyUnleashed #BritishPolitics #ReformUK #NigelFarage #Clacton

🗣️ “Fringe parties are exploiting FPTP to take majorities”. 📈

🗳️ Rory Stewart makes a strong case for proportional voting, stating Reform UK could win a big majority with 30% of the vote. ❌

Credit: @therestpolitics.bsky.social @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social

#OpenBritain #DemocracyUnleashed

“Many of the Government’s proposals are welcome, but frankly they seem like tinkering round the edges of a grossly unfair voting system. To truly restore trust in our democracy, we need everyone's vote to count equally.”

💬 APPG Vice Chair @elliechowns.bsky.social

“There's much to welcome in the Govt’s proposals, including the reduction of the voting age to 16. But there's a danger that young people’s enthusiasm for our democracy will be dampened because our First Past the Post excludes so many of their voices from our politics.”

💬 @lisasmartmp.bsky.social

🏦 "Will the Minister, consider reviewing - because of the flawed nature of First Past the Post - the elections to this place?"

🪑 This morning, our Chair @alexsobel.co.uk led calls from across the House for the Government to address Westminster's broken voting system

💥 The Government has just published its proposals for electoral reforms

💬 Statement from our Chair, @alexsobel.co.uk: "Today’s proposals are a welcome step towards cleaner, fairer and more trusted elections, but one critical issue remains unresolved: the voting system itself."

BREAKING: The Speaker has granted an Urgent Question on the Government's 'Strategy for Elections'

MPs will have the opportunity to ask the Minister about their proposals for democratic reform, due to be published today, in the coming minutes...

⚠️ "Mayors serve many millions of people and manage multi-million pound budgets, yet can be elected by just a fraction of the vote"

💯 Angela Rayner is right that politicians should not be elected to important offices by First Past the Post

⚖ The same is true of MPs

Trump's UK state visit was just announced for 17 September.

💥💥💥 JOIN THE PROTEST!

Let's make it absolutely massive.

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🗣️ “They are the enemy - they’re posers.” 📺

🌹 Former Labour leader, Lord Kinnock, provides an excellent analysis of Reform UK, highlighting their willingness to use a similar playbook to fascism, to win over the public. ✅

#OpenBritain #DemocracyUnleashed #BritishPolitics #ReformUK #Reform #Farage

Write to your MP: Get big money out of politics Stop Trump Coalition

Elon Musk boasted about spending hundreds of millions to elect Donald Trump. The UK could be next – unless we get big money out of politics.

Write to your MP to demand a cap on political donations in the Elections Bill:
stoptrump.org.uk/mp-big-money...

Government promises community control as ‘new dawn’ Bill introduced The legislation includes measures to boost the power of mayors and deliver a ‘radical reset of local government’.

“By committing to changing this, the Government has wisely taken a step in the right direction - but First Past the Post is just as flawed when it comes to general elections."

💬 @alexsobel.co.uk on plans to scrap First Past the Post for mayor and police & crime commissioner elections

"Since the last Government imposed First Past the Post on mayoral elections, it has failed to fairly represent voters, undermined the ability of mayors to speak for their whole communities, and therefore eroded trust in politics"

💬 Statement from our Chair, @alexsobel.co.uk

💥 BREAKING: the Government's English Devolution and Community Empowerment bill will scrap the First Past the Post voting system for mayor and police & crime commissioner elections

👏 This is hugely welcome recognition that First Past the Post is not fit for purpose

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😳 Reform UK. Advance UK. Restore Britain. The Ridiculous Right continues to splinter…❌

💬 Comment below with your most ludicrous splinter party name - and the headbanger who would lead it!👇

#OpenBritain #DemocracyUnleashed #ReformUK #NigelFarage #AdvanceUK #BenHabib #RestoreBritain #RupertLowe

PR is the 'Politics of the Future' Ranked choice voting fundamentally shifted the dynamics of New York's Mayoral primary race – imagine what it could do on a national scale in the US or UK.

Big win for Zohran, and a big win for fair voting systems.

Me for @openbritain.bsky.social on how ranked choice voting changed the tenor of the NYC mayoral primaries

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uglypolitix.substack.com/p/pr-is-the-...

Public Trust in Government Collapses to Record Low as Demand for Electoral Reform Surges New research finds record levels of support for a fairer voting system as trust in Government collapses to new lows

"A record 60% of respondents now favour replacing the current electoral system.

The report underscores the importance of the work being done by @appgfairelections.bsky.social inside parliament and @openbritain.bsky.social, Make Votes Matter and others outside."

- @bylinetimes.bsky.social

Why Westminster’s biggest parliamentary group is calling for a commission on electoral reform Last week’s elections were a wake-up call for more reasons than one.

👂 The Government should listen to the public

📢 Westminster's biggest all-party group - @appgfairelections.bsky.social - is calling for Ministers to set up a National Commission for Electoral Reform to find the best way forward for Britain

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❓ Since the 1980s, @natcen.bsky.social has been asking people whether we should change the voting system we use for general elections - or keep it as it is

🚀 In recent years, support for a fairer system has surged, overtaking First Past the Post - & going higher and higher every year

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💥 Public support for electoral reform has reached a new all-time high

📈 60% of people now want to change to a fair, proportional voting system... including a majority of supporters of every party

🎞️ Our Vice Chair @elliechowns.bsky.social calls for the Government to listen & act

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🥳 The Birthday Boy’s Pathetic Parade! 😢

🇺🇸 Saturday’s military parade through D.C. to mark Trump’s birthday (advertised as a celebration of 250 years of the American military) was underwhelming, to say the very least. 🤡

#OpenBritain #DemocracyUnleashed #AmericanPolitics #Trump #TrumpParade #NoKings

See ya there! 👋

🚨 TONIGHT! ❌🍊🤡

🍊 Two-Tier Trump 🤡

🚨 Riot and insurrection on Capitol Hill to prevent the peaceful transfer of power? Pardoned. ✅

🛑 Protest against illegal and undemocratic home and workplace raids to detain and deport immigrants? Attacked. ❌

#OpenBritain #DemocracyUnleashed #AmericanPolitics #Trump #LA #ICE

🚨 Open Britain will be there on Thursday! ❌🍊🤡

↪️ ZIA YU-TURN ↩️

🤡 The Reform UK circus continues, as Zia Yusuf returns - just 48 hours after stating the party was a waste of time! 🤔

❌ This party will never be fit to govern - their own people know it! 🫢

#OpenBritain #DemocracyUnleashed #BritishPolitics #ReformUK #Farage #Yusuf

🚨 Chairman of Reform UK, Zia Yusuf, has RESIGNED following a row over Sarah Pochin’s call for a burka ban. 🗞️

😳 First Lowe, now this. Reform is being exposed as a party of hate and intolerance and is tearing itself apart… 👀

#OpenBritain #DemocracyUnleashed #BritishPolitics #ReformUK #Reform #Farage

🚨 The terrible Trump tribute act continues… 🙄

🤡 Nigel Farage has announced the rollout of MAGA-mimicking ‘DOGE’ schemes in Reform-led councils. 💷

🏛️ County halls - expect the scrapping of plenty of non-existent DEI roles… 🤥

#OpenBritain #DemocracyUnleashed #BritishPolitics #ReformUK #Farage #DOGE

📺 Jacob Rees-Mogg wants a Conservatives - Reform UK election pact - citing FPTP as the reason. 🗳️

📍 We’re calling for a National Commission for Electoral Reform, and a move towards proportional voting. ✅

#OpenBritain #DemocracyUnleashed #BritishPolitics #Parliament #FPTP #ProportionalRepresentation

💥 DEMOCRACY TAKES CENTRE STAGE 💥

📸 On Tuesday, we celebrated ‘Strengthening Democracy in an Age of Volatility’ with the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Fair Elections - now the LARGEST APPG IN PARLIAMENT! 🏛️

#OpenBritain #DemocracyUnleashed #Democracy #BritishPolitics #Parliament #FairElections