We have, in Westminster, a system built on unearned majority-rule and confrontation and this has ground to a halt when faced with the realities of 21st century politics.
With the 2019 election, we saw the Westminster system fight back-handing one party 100% of power on a minority of the vote.
For the first time since 2005 a party gained a dominant majority. The Conservatives gained an extra 48 seats – a 7% increase in seats from 2017 – on a 1.3 percent increase in vote share, delivering a majority of 80 seats, the largest for the Conservatives since 1987.
This is an extraordinary shift given the previous election had seen the Prime Minister lose her majority on a similar vote share.
This is what the FPTP system is designed to do – manufacture a majority for one party at the expense of voters’ choices.
It could be so different, in a modern society FPTP no longer represents the needs of voters and electoral reform is urgently needed.
The Labour Party has scrapped First Past the Post voting for its National Executive Committee elections, meaning constituency representatives will now be elected using the gold standard of PR: the Single Transferable Vote.