{"id":71845,"date":"2023-09-13T08:33:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T07:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=71845"},"modified":"2023-09-13T08:33:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T07:33:02","slug":"first-past-the-post-is-an-exercise-in-undermining-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/09\/13\/first-past-the-post-is-an-exercise-in-undermining-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"First-past-the-post is an exercise in undermining democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was posted on Twitter yesterday:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-71846\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-13-at-08.29.39-550x907.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"907\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-13-at-08.29.39-550x907.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-13-at-08.29.39-182x300.png 182w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-13-at-08.29.39-768x1267.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-13-at-08.29.39-242x400.png 242w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-13-at-08.29.39.png 788w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Don't tell me that first-past-the-post does not undermine democracy when that data makes it so clear that it very obviously does.<\/p>\n<p>And no wonder the Greens are angry about this. They have every right to be.<\/p>\n<p>Labour Party members know this and support proportional representation anyway. They did so at its party conference.<\/p>\n<p>Starmer is ignoring them. He is no friend of democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was posted on Twitter yesterday: Don&#8217;t tell me that first-past-the-post does not undermine democracy when that data makes it so clear that it very<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/09\/13\/first-past-the-post-is-an-exercise-in-undermining-democracy\/\"><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":[122,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-labour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71845","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=71845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71847,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71845\/revisions\/71847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}