If enough people vote libdem they could knock the conservatives out of opposition. Having the libdems as opposition would push labour further left instead of the usual Tory rightwing bs. 🤔 It would make a refreshing change not to have to listen to that bs for a while!

I’m voting tactically in my constituency. Lib Dem this time. I will continue to vote tactically until PR is adopted.

Weird that the Tory MP thinks that people deciding who to vote for is socialism, not quite sure that relates to the workers owning the means of production. Almost as if he doesn't know what he's on about 🤔

When a third of the vote gives u a safe seat, it tells u, how undemocratic FPTP is!

With less than 24 hours before the polls open, I am supremely confident in Rishi Sunak's ability to fuck this up even worse.

For a moment, I thought it had been the same Tory MP for 100 years. Then I remembered that Jacob Rees Mogg is far more ancient, and it's not him.

Great idea. Either give the voters proper proportional representation or this will happen more and more.

You can judge a society by the way it treats its libraries.

Zero seats for the tories campaign

Dunno about you, but I wanna see the back of the Tories for good. I've got my Tory wipeout bingo chart and a big red marker pen. I'm hoping for ZERO Tory seats tomorrow.

It's a damning indictment on FPTP that people have to resort to voting against a party rather than for a party. I don't blame the people, I blame the quirks of the system for pushing them towards this. Proportional Representation has its own drawbacks but on balance it's superior to FPTP.

Proportional representation argument is stronger than ever. The Gallagher index is extremely high at this election standing at around a predicted 28 units. This election will be hugely disproportionate and undemocratic. It's time for electoral reform NOW and fast already... STV would be nice. Lib dems is our hope for PR... lets get them in as the official opposition, vote tactically! And that might mean voting Labour instead of Lib dems, check in your constituency.

this is a great solution unti we get PR

Gosh! That gentleman is such a good speaker, more of him please

I think whoever pulled together the tactical voting nation-wide strategy in Great Britain is probably going to prove to be the Tories worse nightmare.

Come on everyone. Use your vote, and vote tactically. Get Tories down to 3rd place. 🙏

My concern is the backlog in hospital appointments caused by Tory supporters requiring an endoscopy to check them for brains.

Proportional representation is the way to go to give everyone a voice

Well done to South Devon. Let's hope all the work involved pays off

Excellent work by the team in Totnes. If the party HQs don't get their acts together and give us a better voting system, this kind of thing is going to happen more and more across the country. I hope all MP's get as shirty about it as the Tory git down there did.

Very proud of my little town of Totnes. Full of articulate and intelligent people not blinded by populist rhetoric. Well done Simon and co. for organising the primary !

The last time there was a non Tory mp in my seat was 92 years ago. Total farce.

Stop The Tories dot Vote Pass it on.

Impressive. If this is the only way we can get these Tories turned near Fascists out, so be it. At 82 this is by far the worst Government I have ever seen.

Good luck totnes!

They did it 🎉🎉 congrats to Caroline Voaden, first lib dem MP for South devon!!

Well done PR Voting 🗳️ please NOW 🇵🇸🇵🇸🙌🙏💚

The first man interviewed wearing the glasses is incredibly articulate, his opinions are exactly like mine, there might be two difference I'm poor and he strikes me as well off and educated. I might be foolish? But I have faith in the good people of the UK.

The incumbent MP talking about the problem of this approach while ignoring the clear problem of him being a vampire smh

I live just over the bridge on the opening shots. I've voted Lib Dem by post as it's the option to oust the Tories. I don't have a strong allegiance to either Labour or the Lib Dems so would have been happy to support either. Caroline seems a really solid person, she's local, a friend know her dad and I think she'll be an excellent constituency MP. This election is about a change of direction from Tories only in it for themselves to a government in it to serve the country. Labour & Lib Dems are aligned in that they want the best for the majority even if they disagree about some of the details. Ultimately I'd like to see electoral reform so politics becomes more genuinely representative & those in power have to work to form a consensus & move beyond adversarial politics. I'd welcome a significant Labour win but a landslide by any party really only shows how bad the system is.

I am glad to see that the share of vote for Labour has dropped by five per cent and the share for Lib Dems has risen by the SAME percentage, as people in the Blue Wall change their electoral intentions to a tactical vote for the removal of Tory Scum. This has happened only since the calling of the election.

I think the lib dem candidate needs to acknowledge all those who are having to vote for her tactically. And pledge to represent them and push for PR so they don't have to do that again.

the problem in the UK is not only the electoral voting system at the moment also that too many people are sturbon and uneducated. tactical voting is for example for many on the left an impossible task even they know that to vote liberal or green would make an alternative to the Tories a seat winnable.

What a great team of people working together to oust Anthony Mangnall

I believe that failure to govern comes down to ideological infighting, so I'd rather Labour gets a big majority and have a stable government

No Torys and No Reform would leave the country an infinitely better place.

The fact that she wouldn’t answer that last question says everything about her and the weakness of the Lib Dem’s in general.

Totnes had been Tory since 1931. 93 years.

National parties not listening to the electorate. I am shocked. Well, not that shocked. 😢

I love watching Ed nod during interviews

Hopefully West Dorset should see a change as well!

Will the people of North Somerset drag themselves out of the 18th Century and modernise ?

We definitely need to change our voting system.... We need Proportional Representation ☑️☑️☑️

It’s very strange as an Australian that the UK still uses the first past the post model and that people are not compelled to vote. I watch on with interest.

11:10 I like the face she did at the end to that last question. That face said "That's a damn good question". Ed, that was a damn good question.

So the LibDem candidate wouldn't have respected the process and not campaigned if someone else won? yuck

The Muad'dib of Totnes is a great unofficial title

I would truly love to see Dreadlocks lose her seat

Say it with me children: "Proportional Representation"

Splitters!

Man, Ed is really giving sleeper build in this video

Ashford Kent has been tory since 1885

This is a fantastic idea. The Tory candidate is laughing, even he doesn't believe his socialism line.

The welcoming signs for Totnes used to have “paired with Area 51” and “paired with Narnia” painted on them. Totnes has always been a green/leftie stronghold.

open primaries is the way to go In my opinion.

If you look at Australia, the ranked voting system ensures the longevity of the two-party majority that is Labor and Liberal. Very undemocratic yet highly praised by those who aren't that well-versed with it overseas.

We could have voted tactically many decades ago. We are slow learners.

So basically we don't have a 'democracy'? Have to vote for some party we don't agree with. Yaay. PR is the only answer - then nobody has to vote 'tactically' ever again.

PR got us Brexit. UKIP never got a seat by election at Westminster under FPTP, but got most British seats under PR in Brussels, from where it leveraged the Brexit referendum. Be careful what you wish for.

The blue wall is seeking levelling up

Props to lib dem and green candidates for participating

It worked the Lib Dem’s wonn

Proportion represention is not the way to go , I think the only way is the Aussie system of compulsory voteing this way you get a true reading of the electrical thinking

FPTP only used in Belarus elsewhere in Europe? Iceland President, polish upper house both use FPTP

Good for her, hope she wins, but that last answer given to the last question shows a lot about her character. In the worst possible way...

I’m tactically voting in my area, and that will be Labour

I like the Spotty Party but Stripey Party going to win here regardless, so I am going to go with what I really feel this election, which is Flowers!

I wish I had this in my constituency. The tactical voting sites are a start but they just seem to be based on who was second in the last election and that doesn't necessarily mean they are the best option to vote for. I'm voting lib dem because the candidate is already elected on the local council and lives in the area, but the tactical voting site says to vote labour because they got 22% of the vote last election, but in a very conservative constituency it doesn't necessarily mean those swing voters will vote labour, but the lib dem candidate seems like the best option (in my constituency).

Why would you keep dreadlocks when they’re full on making you go bald from traction alopecia like that?

11:02 Disingenuous answer from her there. Happy to benefit from the primary system, but wouldn't help the Green candidate if they'd been chosen.

Totnes is entirely inconsistent. Its self interested coffee and tea outlets engineered a veto on Costa Coffee opening up because they didn't want competition from chains, but there is now a Coffee No.1 in the town with no fuss.

Caroline Voaden comes across as quite decent.

Was his second suggestion the Mujahideen of Totnes?

Again, this is what I have been saying to people for a while - don't just not vote for something or someone who doesn't directly benefit you just because you think you as an individual have little power. The point is that you have a non-zero amount of power, so if EVERYONE made that vote or change to their life, it would cumulatively have a large and non-negligible impact. This is why I lose respect for people who say to me "oh switching my lights off, not using the oven, not buying things encased in plastics or not voting for the conservatives/voting for a party that doesn't directly reward me isn't going to make a difference to the environment and will just make my life harder", because it's exactly this inaction which creates the problem. (yes these are all things I've heard people say or have been said to me) This is a way that some hard-working people who don't solely work for themselves have put the effort in to regain the affect of cumulative voting to at least try and make things better for everyone by essentially somewhat disbanding a monopoly.

The South Devon Primary mechanism was completely ignored by Labour - in fact, if any local Labour Party member cooperated they would be immediately expelled. Labour under Starmer are likely to continue stonewalling perfectly rational demands for electoral reform - the only effective tactic to bring Starmer to the table is one of strength - he will only cooperate if he is literally dragged kicking and screaming to a position where he HAS to consider talking to other parties with a different agenda?

I'm in the Herne Bay and Sandwich seat, at least I get the satisfaction of knowing I have done my bit to bin a Tory 😀 A Tory whom I may add has consistently voted against gay rights, who has decided to give water companies a free pass to pump shit into the sea despite being in a predominantly coastal seat.

Never thought i would see Canterbury be anything other than Conservative in my lifetime, it’s all it had ever been, then in 2017 we got change, Rosie Duffield for Labour. It was an unexpected and seismic change. Duffield is out of favour with the Labour hierarchy and the local party yet popular with the metropolitan DfL’s who now infest the area. Even though she has done little for the local area particularly on the sewage problem and not opposing the constant house building on greenfield sites and is pro letting in the boats full of illegal immigrants i think she will still get in for a third term.

I'll never forgive the Lib Dems for their sordid coalition. Never forget..

Have a look at West Dorset, they've had a Tory MP since 1885!

The labour party have sided with the tory party to keep SNP out. Vote Green.

11:02 Classic politician non-answer.

It would be against the Labour constitution to not stand a candidate in every constituency.

"Which candidate is best placed to beat the Tories?" is an extremely negative message. I want a proactive OFFER.

Lib dems contest the centre right and the centre left.

How middle class and dull

*_shared values_*

The destruction of the Tory’s really isn’t something people should be aiming for. Lose them and you’re left with reform as the only right leaning party. When (and it will be a when) labour politics fails in 1,2 or 3 terms time. We’ll have radical right or 4 flavours of left. People will vote right for change.

STOP THE TORIES DOT VOTE

If they wanted the Tories out I dunno why they invited Starmers Labour. Good they didnt attend and we might get someone with a progressive voice here instead of Tory/Labour.

100 years? Wow that's verging on slaves and sugar plantations.

Well good luck Caroline. And maybe if you do win, maybe propose another referendum. No, not that referendum! Another one about First Past the Post.

People wouldn't have to vote in a way they feel is undemocratic if we didn't have FPTP and 'It's sOCiAlisM! Reeee!' is very funny.

We have the same problem everywhere, Wales has English Labour, London Centric favourites put into seats they have no ties or even known in the area….locals stepped aside…again….

7:37 *Spiderman meme*

The Tories coming 3rd is a good thing EVEN for Tory voters! Even the most religious of the lot knows that a Labor government is inevitable, which means that if your conservative candidate still wins somehow, then that sends a message to the Conservatives that they can put any moron in this seat and no amount of fuckups will make the locals change their minds....Which means an incompetent and complacent Tory leadership. If you vote them out now, maybe next Election they will come back with a better programme.

Is there a reason why Ed keeps looking at his phone whilst interviewing people? Is he recording the discussion? It seems rather rude to me - either give 100% attention or not at all!

Devon County Council have not closed any libraries since at least 2010. The mobile libraries were stopped because hardly anyone was using them and it's better to put money into child welfare than to keep a rich granny in library books. I think a lot of the people interviewed might have only moved into the area recently and are bringing their prejudices with them, without much understanding of why we live as we do.

You poor deluded people.

Dude. Stop scrolling on your phone whilst people are answering the question you just asked.

America and Canada use fptp