On Tuesday the 12th of October 2021, we successfully ran our first educational event of the academic year! We would like to thank every single one of you who attended in person and registered for a ticket via Eventbrite, but also everyone who attended the stream via Teams!
Our President Will Hitt kicked the event off with an opening presentation on what the core concept of democracy, what government does, and why it’s important how the government is elected.
Will then passed the floor to guest speaker Debbie Woudman from Make Votes Matter who looked at the statistics on how representative our current government is, and how the vote share of 2019 isn’t very proportional at all, and why adopting a Proportional Representation electoral system can come with many benefits such as increased representation of gender, sexuality, ethnicity and values, along with increased economic equity, and more.
The floor was then passed to Dr Alia Middleton, senior lecturer at the University of Surrey in the Politics Department; Alia discussed the failure of the 2011 Alternative Vote Referendum, along with the misrepresentation going on in the constituency of Barnsley East and how there were more right-leaning voters than left, yet the constituency gained a Labour MP under the First Past the Post system.
Here’s to our first educational event going well, and to future events to come! Thanks for coming, stay tuned for further updates via our blog here on the website, or our social medias!
Best wishes,
The Politics Society
