British politics is broken — and the electoral system is at the heart of it

Nick Barlow
Nov 5 · 6 min read
Make Votes Matter

There are lots of ways in which British politics just isn’t working at the moment, but as we’ve moved from generic political ranting at each other to general election ranting at each other over the past week, I’ve become more and more convinced that our electoral system sits at the heart of almost all the problems we have. It’s a corroding influence at the…

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Nick Barlow

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Many, many things. PhD student at QMUL. Councillor. Ran the 2019 London Marathon for Brain Research UK. @nickjbarlow on Twitter.

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