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over beyond. Hello I'm Naomi Smith and on today's bunker we're going to be discussing the woeful state of Britain's

electoral system and why it needs to change. As listeners will know UK elections are

currently run under a winner-takes- all system called First Past the Post,

meaning we almost always have minority rule. Most British governments don't win the

popular vote, so most of the time, most of the people have not voted for the party that is in power.

In 2019, with 43% of the vote, the Conservatives got an 80 seat landslide majority.

More than 800,000 people voted for the Green Party, yet they only have Caroline Lucas

to show for it, whereas it took just 38,000 votes to get each Tory MP elected.

And before you think, first-past the post only helps Tories, well in 2005, Labour got just 35% of the votes but secured 54% of the MPs.

And so I hear you ask what is the point of an election if the system means that for many voters there is no

meaningful way for them to express their real preferences. If election outcomes

don't reflect what voters think is it any wonder that more and more people feel disenfranchised

and ask themselves why bother voting at all when their vote is essentially wasted.

According to the Electoral Reform Society, 45% of votes in 2019 were wasted because they were given to a

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