How to make your vote count: is Tactical Voting a necessary evil? With Femi Oluwole
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Pod Save the UK
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🗓️ 13 June 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The polls are indicating a landslide victory for Labour come the election on July 4th. But that hasn’t stopped the calls - from both the left and the right - for citizens to vote tactically. But what does that really mean in Britain’s broken electoral system?
Joining Nish and Coco on the PSUK sofa is Femi Oluwole, activist and campaigner, and Joe Twyman, a seasoned pollster covering his 9th election. Together they discuss whether this is an election for people to vote with their heart or if being “strategic” is more important and whether our new parliament has any hope of delivering long overdue reform to our electoral system.
We also hear from Jessica Garland from the Electoral Reform Society.
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Femi Oluwole, YouTube Campaigner, Tactical Voting activist
Joe Twyman, Co-founder and director of Deltapoll
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| 0:00.0 | The polls are predicting a Tory wipeout and a Labour landslide, but not a single vote has yet to be cast. |
| 0:08.6 | In spite of the fact it feels like this election has been going on for 17 years. |
| 0:12.1 | So how do we make the most of our votes in a |
| 0:14.3 | broken electoral system? I'm Nish Kamar and I'm Coco Khan and this is Pod Save the UK. |
| 0:18.9 | Today we're joined by polls to Joe Twyman, the electoral reform societies Jessica Garland and political activist |
| 0:24.6 | Famioluulae, but first. |
| 0:26.6 | You didn't care, did you? |
| 0:28.6 | No, I care deeply. |
| 0:29.8 | Then why didn't you stay? |
| 0:31.2 | As I said, the itinerary for these events were set weeks ago before the general election |
| 0:35.7 | campaign. |
| 0:36.7 | I participated in events both in Portsmouth and in France, and having fully participated in all the |
| 0:41.8 | British events with British veterans, I returned home |
| 0:44.7 | before the international leaders event. |
| 0:46.7 | That was a mistake and I apologize for that. |
| 0:49.7 | That's Rishi Sunak speaking to Sky News's Sam Coates, in possibly the most painful moment of the campaign so far. |
| 0:56.7 | Now many of our listeners will have heard about this story already but it's really worth turning |
| 1:01.0 | it over. |
| 1:02.0 | This is a catastrophe for the Tories. So yeah it's been a |
| 1:05.9 | a second disastrous week for I think maybe the worst campaign I've ever experienced in 2017 Theresa May went |
| 1:17.7 | into that election that she called with such kind of boisterous confidence |
| 1:21.2 | because the polls were saying she was going and then she ran such a bad campaign |
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