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Occupy: Scrap poor electoral system
Activists demand end of first past the post
Democracy campaigners were celebrating yesterday as their tireless five-month on-and-off occupation of Parliament Square drew to a close.
Occupy Democracy activists assembled outside Parliament for an electoral party with a twist — it cheered for neither blue nor red.
“A Labour-led government will be preferable to a Conservative-led one, but neither one represents a real choice for the British people,” said Occupy Democracy spokesman Phil England.
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