On 15th February, we have a speaker from Make Votes Matter, on Zoom, to tell us about their campaign to improve democracy in the UK by encouraging proportional representation (PR). Such reform will be an essential part of restoring sanity to UK politics in general and our relationship with Europe in particular.

Starts 8pm. “Doors open” at 7:30.

Make Votes Matter (MVM) is the national movement for proportional representation in the UK, whose aim is to achieve PR in the House of Commons within years, not decades.

Danny Abrahams is an MVM volunteer, engaged in cross-party speaking to groups , organisations and local political parties. The aim is to raise awareness of PR, including its huge benefits, as well as highlighting what a broken and undemocratic voting system we currently have in first-past-the-post (FPTP).

The UK is in crisis , with its approach to the pandemic, economic inequality, climate deteriorating and its relationship with Europe in the balance; all having their roots caused or exacerbated, MVM believes, by a political system that is unresponsive and ineffective because of the undemocratic FPTP electoral system.

Find out more about their campaign at https://www.makevotesmatter.org.uk/.

If you want to be part of the conversation then please email info@somersetloveseurope.org.uk  and we will send you a Zoom link.