The Case for Electoral Reform

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Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

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🗓️ 10 May 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Why proportional representation would be a boon to our democracy. Andrew's Substack - https://andrewdoyle.substack.com/p/the-case-for-electoral-reform Andrew's Twitter - https://twitter.com/andrewdoyle_com Join our exclusive TRIGGERnometry community on Locals! https://triggernometry.locals.com/ OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Music by: Music by: Xentric | [email protected] | https://www.xentricapc.com/ YouTube: @xentricapc Buy Merch Here: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: [email protected] Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/#mailinglist Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod/ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.6	Polsters are imperfect profits. We saw them humiliated in the 2016 US general election.
0:36.8	One survey by the Princeton Election Consortium declared that the chance of Hillary Clinton
0:41.5	defeating Donald Trump was over 99%.
0:45.0	Here in the UK in the same year, very few believe that the majority would vote to leave the European Union,
0:50.0	even among those who most desired that outcome.
0:52.0	The electorate is a fickle beast.
0:54.8	So what are we to make of the latest of many ominous polls for the Conservatives?
0:58.9	A recent U-Gov analysis seemingly obliterates Rishi Sunak's chances of victory with
1:04.0	labor projected to win over 400 seats. If this prophecy plays out it would see
1:09.2	numerous cabinet ministers dispatched including Jeremy Hunt, Penny Mordent and Grant Shaps.
1:14.4	The results are even worse for the Tories than those revealed by a poll commissioned by Conservative
1:18.5	Britain Alliance in January, which drew information from a sample seven times larger than the norm.
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