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“First past the post” in the UK is keeping people from voting for the party most likely to help tackle the climate crisis.

taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2023/0

Via @RichardJMurphy

#UK#UKPol#climate

@aral

I sometimes wonder if democracy is at all still a core value of most Europeans.

In Germany, votes for parties that get less than 5% are discarded. They are not re-assigned to another second choice. To no surprise, parties only seem to care about this when they get close to getting kicked out of parliament. Meanwhile the biggest party CDU has a D for democracy in their name, shameful.

Aral Balkan

@potatoes_fall I’d love to say yes but it seems capitalism is the core value, not democracy these days.