Why do we bother voting when half the votes get binned? Time for a system that actually counts our voices.

It makes no sense that millions of votes just vanish into thin air. You vote for someone, they don't win, and that's it, your voice is gone. Then we get a government that barely half the country voted for, claiming a mandate. How does that make any sense for a democracy? It’s not fair and it makes people feel like what they think doesn’t matter, which I see all the time in our community.

What we need is a system where every single vote genuinely counts towards who ends up in Parliament. Something like proportional representation, where the number of seats a party gets broadly matches the percentage of votes they receive across a region. You'd still get to vote for a local person, but there'd also be a regional list so that the overall result is fairer. It means if a party gets 20% of the votes, they get roughly 20% of the seats. Simple, really.