to think that if the Government want people to take back control and to want people's votes to count then....

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They should introduce a fairer voting system than First Past the Post, winner takes all.

People have said that they felt not listened to. That their vote never counted. And that is especially true if you live in an area that always returns certain parties.

It was interesting listening this morning to the radio - and Ireland. An Irish MP was saying that there is always compromise and working together because of coalitions...

I know we had a referendum on this a while ago. Maybe now with Brexit, people will see the importance of a new voting system.

It would give more people back more of a voice in politics.

Having seen two hung parliaments in my lifetime, I think there's every chance of a 3rd next time.

My DF (Italian) has never grasped our voting system anyway, since moving here in the 60s.

And what the politicians won't deliver, I think the electorate will. The old two-party days are gone, and there are now enough smaller parties to really throw up some odd results.

All personal opinion mind you. I have neither the facts, brains or bother to back anything up

Didn’t we have a vote on this in 2011?

We had the chance to change it in very recent history. No one was interested.

I know the word "referendum" throws up a lot of mixed emotions at the moment. But we could do with a well informed and simpler one like this right now to boost national morale!

The 2011 referendum on this was rife with conusing information where really Alternative Voting is quite simple and just better in every single way.

Didn’t we have a vote on this in 2011? We had a grossly mismanaged vote which in effect said "do you want to replace FPTP with the system generally agreed to be the worst of all possibilities?" Another thing not to forgive LibDems for - the chance of a lifetime, and they allowed themselves to be manoeuvered into a question that was going to get the answer the government wanted.

We had the chance to change it in very recent history. No one was interested.

Agreed. Although at the time both Labour and Tory advised people to vote against it, so it was a dead duck. I can only hope there's a small hint of "if only we'd not done that" in the back of some of their minds, given the shitshow of the past 2 and a half years.

I was ... slightly taken aback fucking flabbergasted when some people I knew said they were voting against the proposal. Not because they didn't want a change, but quite the reverse. It wasn't the change they wanted. I guess they missed the bit that it was unlikely to happen again in the next 50 years.

I know we had a vote.

Given that the Government wants people to have more control and more say in democracy because so many of them feel excluded, it would seem the perfect time for any Government to reform the voting system.

But strong parties aren't going to reform the thing that occasionally gives them large majorities - but also occasionally makes them ineffective opposition parties.