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George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social |
#IDthought 6 At every general election, we are faced with a binary choice. With one cross, we are deemed to have signalled our agreement everything in a partyโs manifesto and everything else โ if it wins โ it can ram through Parliament over the next five years. ๐งต
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Jon close
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tbf I agree with the sentiment, but you're only signing on to a manifesto insofar as you're voting for a representative who currently agrees to vote for the things in the manifesto for the most part. They are free to abandon it and leave the party.
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Jarda
@jarda.bsky.social
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Nor even that, the manifesto is often valid only until the voting rooms are closed and if they win, they do whatever they please.
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Nutsine
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Good morning ๐
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JanPieter ๐ช๐บ
@janpieter.bsky.social
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First-past-the-post voting systems (districts) result in so much obvious madness, minority rule. and only 2 parties tend to survive. Amazing that countries ever adopted this system ๐ฌ. The amazing CGP Grey did some great videos on the topic:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tW...
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cleminan
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Voting, if you aren't just voting for your 'team', is always a compromise. I've found the Vote For Policies site incredibly useful after I looked up how futile a 'none of the above' attempt was in UK elections.
voteforpolicies.org.uk
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Gareth Oakland ๐ซ๐ท๐๐
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Maybe 1% of the population read the manifesto. The rest see what their echo chamber is saying and do that.
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Margo
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I didn't understand that MP's had to follow the whip even if whichever policy was being voted on harmed their constituency. It makes contacting your MP to consider speaking against legislation proposed by their party feel exceptionally futile.
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Seegras
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Why do you do that then? It's not as if this "winner-takes-all" model of governance was a given. It's just the soccer-model English-style parliaments apparently have agreed on.
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George Monbiot
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Itโs not that different from the cross or thumbprint with which indigenous people were asked to sign treaties with European colonists, which in some cases they were unable to read. It arises from the same mode and style of governance.
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AJ Farrelly ๐จ๐ฎ๐ช๐บ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ
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Even if we have just voted for the second worst option in order to keep the worst option out.
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