Are you registered to vote? Guest posting by [Labour supporting] TrixXxie of Kilburn Unemployed Workers Group, who has a Labour MP who supports Britain Remaining in the EU

Kilburn Unemployed Workers Group itself is non-party-political.
Whatever your party political preferences this General Election,
make sure you are registered to vote.

 

The day before the 2017 election a national newspaper predicted the largest Tory majority since Thatcher. Nearly every pollster predicted a Tory landslide. They had us down by up to 13 points - and a day later *we proved every single one of them wrong.*

This time around? An earthquake is happening. *Yesterday 300,000 people registered to vote.* More than 1.5 million young people have registered to vote since the start of the election.

We've got one more days to sign people up. *Share this link everywhere.*

https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote

Vote for Policies and Make Votes Matter for true, informed debate, democracy

Yesterday morning, I blogged Government's funding proposal for Sizewell C proposed nuclear reactor exemplifies 'government by market forces'.

Reflecting on this and its 'silly season' timing exacerbated by the 'no deal Brexit' smokescreen of a 'debate', I came up with the heading for this blog post. One of the great tragedies of the FPTP (First Past the Post) voting system's unfairness in the UK is that it bolsters an alienation between the electorate and the political establishment. In the backdrop of such alienation, paid political lobbyists and the megabucks funders of the mainstream political parties dominate, as do the lobbyists of the big UK 'charities' that only purport to support the disadvantaged people they are supposed to represent. Do political pollsters reflect public opinion or manipulate it? And what about the prospect of Voting for Policies?

And I note that Energy Minister Andrea Leadsom's brother-in-law, one family step removed from her husband, is a major funder of the Tory Party.  

Opposing FPTP and its hangers on is the cross-party campaigning organisation, Make Votes Matter: The Movement for Proportional Representation.