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It could be so different, in a modern society FPTP no longer represents the needs of voters and electoral reform is urgently needed.