This article by Femi Oluwole and published by Independent demonstrates the need for electoral reform in Britain.  Here is an excerpt:

It’s already clear the UK doesn’t have real democracy. Forty-four per cent of the country voted Tory, with the majority voting for parties including Labour, the Greens, the SNP and the Lib Dems, and yet the Tories have 56 per cent of the MPs in parliament so the party can pass any law it likes.

That means the majority of voters have no actual say in our “democracy”. That’s because our first past the post (FPTP) voting system doesn’t include the millions of votes for the losing candidates across 650 constituencies. And now things are getting worse.

Labour’s Sadiq Khan was re-elected as London mayor under the two-stage preferential system where you can put a second choice so everyone gets a say. Shortly after, the government announced plans to do mayoral elections under FPTP. It also announced plans to ban people without photo ID from voting, knowing that would exclude two million people from our “democracy”, and disproportionately affect those in poverty and people from ethnic minorities.

Continue reading here.

Counting all votes equally is the absolute bare minimum for a democracy. We can take back control by changing the system