All we want for Christmas is a vote that matters

"All we want for Christmas is a vote that matters,"

Say Stockton Liberal Democrat campaigners

Stockton Lib Dem "Make Votes Matter supporters" are taking part in a nationwide Day of Action, sending Christmas cards to their MP demanding equal votes. Today is exactly one year since Johnson's Tories got an 80 seat majority on well under half the votes cast - just 43.6%. In the 2019 General Election 7 out of 10 votes cast by the UK population didn't matter.

Make Votes Matter is a UK cross party movement advocating to change the First Past The Post voting system to Proportional Representation (PR). They are posting their Christmas cards to the local MP (see photo)

Suzanne Fletcher, President of Stockton Lib Dems, supporter of Make Votes Matter, as well as Liberal Democrats for Electoral Reform said "The extreme polarisation and fractious debate within our communities and politics ultimately fails to serve the UK's best interests - for that we need a truly representative Parliament."

Maureen Rigg, former Group Leader of Stockton Council said as she wrote her card "Creating a better society for British people, in which genuinely representative, informed and deliberative democracy can thrive, is at the heart of the campaign to win Proportional Representation. This is all too obvious in the UK's response to the pandemic and it's beyond urgent that change comes soon."