{"id":29207,"date":"2015-06-02T10:41:18","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T09:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=29207"},"modified":"2015-06-02T10:42:31","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T09:42:31","slug":"how-would-you-prefer-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/06\/02\/how-would-you-prefer-to-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"How would you prefer to vote?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Electoral Reform Society (ERS) has just published its report on what it calls the most unfair election in the UK, ever.<\/p>\n<p>It has suggested that using differing electoral systems the votes would have been as follows:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/06\/02\/how-would-you-prefer-to-vote\/screen-shot-2015-06-02-at-10-37-23\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29208\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-29208 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-02-at-10.37.23-550x342.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-06-02 at 10.37.23\" width=\"550\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-02-at-10.37.23-550x342.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-02-at-10.37.23-483x300.png 483w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-02-at-10.37.23-300x186.png 300w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-02-at-10.37.23-200x124.png 200w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-02-at-10.37.23.png 1284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>Their f<a href=\"http:\/\/www.electoral-reform.org.uk\/blog\/system-crisis\" target=\"_blank\">ull analysis is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I would probably opt for larger constituency STV (single transferable vote) as the ERS does.<\/p>\n<p>What seems impossible to justify any longer is first past the post. That worked in a two party system. That appears to be history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Electoral Reform Society (ERS) has just published its report on what it calls the most unfair election in the UK, ever. It has suggested<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/06\/02\/how-would-you-prefer-to-vote\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}