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Sat Dec 14 14:10:54 +0000 2019

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Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Activists often argue FPTP gives their opponents a structural geographic advantage, but this almost never bears out. FPTP consistently favors the PV winner. Two rare exceptions, 1987 and 2010, saw *Labour* with slightly more efficient vote/seat ratios despite losing the PV. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 14, 2019 Deleted

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Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

In the 1997 UK election, each Labour seat took 32,340 votes to win. Each Tory seat took 58,188 votes. So it’s not true that "FPTP helps Tories.” It is true that FPTP exaggerates popular vote majorities and artificially shrinks the voice of minority parties. Which still matters! — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 14, 2019

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Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Lots of opinions about the appropriate place of social networks in regulating speech, but a viral post written in the language of genocide has been up for now 8 hours and going. — PolitiTweet.org

Barkha Trehan @trehan_barkha

India is for Indians, not for illegal immigrants like Rohingyas and Bangladeshis. We need pest control and must we… https://t.co/zEv8lxwIKc

Posted Dec. 15, 2019 Deleted

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