Recent data indicates that FPTP systems drive ever greater levels of inequality

  • The UK is the most unequal country in North West Europe

  • Countries like the UK that have First-past-the-post (FPTP) are all more unequal than those using PR

  • FPTP countries have higher inequality because the FPTP mechanism itself weakens the progressive lobby

  • Brexit only happened because the effects of UK inequality are now damaging middle England

  • Unless the electoral system is changed, the UK is trapped in a cycle of perpetually increasing inequality

  • Scotland’s 25 year old devolved PR system may emerge as a defining factor in the constitutional future of the UK

The UK’s Spiral of FPTP doom