Submitted on Saturday 25th June 2016
Rejected on Thursday 30th June 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Give Britain a referendum on proportional representation in general elections.
Despite MP's advice, 51% voted to leave and 49% to remain in the EU Referendum. How can the current or future governments effectively represent a population so divided if we use First Past the Post? Offer us Proportional Representation. The disconnect can only be healed by greater democracy.
General Elections use FPtP and regularly leave us with governments that are endorsed by less than 30% of the electorate. The current government is only backed by 24% of voters. Is this democracy?
Turnout at General Elections is regularly around 60%. Referenda, which use PR, have far higher turnout (EU 72%, Scottish Independence 85%) because the electorate feel their vote counts.
FPtP is a corrupt system that no other European democracy uses. We are in the company of Yemen, Ethiopia and Eritrea.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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