I know I don’t look old enough…

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Congratulations then to Scottish Labour on becoming the second largest party in the Scottish Parliament following Amada Bland's decision to leave Reform. For a while there it looked like Irshad Ahmed might be the one resigning the whip which would have put Labour behind Reform. There's still time.

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It can also be amended to allow party voters to indicate preference amongst those on the list, giving voters control and not party bosses.

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It's not the best voting system, and could be improved significantly simply by abolishing the First Past the Post element of it, yes.

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Two things: one, a bugbear of mine, D'Hondt is just the name of a mathematical formula. Two, more substantively, yes, there's an issue here, but it's very difficult to solve because people also do things like leave parties because they've been bullied, so auto-removal isn't necessarily just!

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