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Rob Priest
@rdpriest.bsky.social

Shout out to other members of my microgeneration who had to study the Jenkins Report in A-Level Government and Politics.

Steven Fielding@polprofsteve2024.bsky.social

Burnham isn't the 'first modern prime minister to advocate scrapping FPTP'. In 97 Labour committed (sic) itself to a referendum on a proportional alternative & in 2010 it committed itself to one on AV. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

giftarticle.ft.comGet used to multi-party politics, it’s here to stayThe prime minister’s promise on electoral reform could entrench the complex fights between five, even six parties
Rob Priest
@rdpriest.bsky.social

I actually think about it weirdly often, I think because the exercise of studying it made me engage at a formative age with the idea that people might put a lot of time and effort into something that would then be quietly shelved and forgotten. An (unintentionally) important life lesson!