Would it surprise you to know that choosing between left and right is not a real choice when you vote? Many people instinctively, or through experience, come to this realisation. Perhaps if we understood why our vote seems to do so little we might choose differently and could change politics wholesale. Your vote could make a difference, but only if you get beyond rhetoric and look instead at what is actually happening.
The disproportional relationship between the national share of votes and the number of seats won in the House of Commons has again come to the fore in the wake of the 2024 UK General Election. Is it time for our First Past the Post (FPTP) voting system to be replaced?
“If human beings believe that they are free, then they will produce much more for their farmers. The best way to maintain this illusion of freedom is to put some of the livestock on the payroll of the farmer. Those cows that become dependent on the existing hierarchy will then attack any other cows who point out the violence, hypocrisy and immorality of human ownership.”
What we currently experience as democracy is the activated perversion of the law, in which the power of the state increases as electors fight between themselves via the ballot box, who will be the next victim of the next perversion of the law.
This delay to democracy is a stark reminder of our responsibility, as voters, to hold those elected to account not only at the ballot box, but throughout their terms of office.
All that has happened since 1973 has exposed the dangers of a top heavy, centrally controlled, system based in Westminster and the lack of a constitutional document that we can all make reference to.
It’s true that Boris has become the PM on the say so of just 0.13% of the population – 92,153 Tory party members, in fact. Though this is about 2-3 times the number of votes most MPs can hope for in a general election, for