1st important milestone hit within 4 days!

We've got our 50th supporter in just 4 days! I've just got an email from Change saying that only 15% of petitions hit this milestone, so to do so in such a short space of time is really encouraging. Of course, once it reaches certain milestones it will become more noticeable on the Change website as the largest petitions are highlighted from there and people are more willing to sign petitions if many others have already done so, helping it grow even further. If you haven't shared this yet please do so to assist in this. So far there's been a lot more support and 'likes' for this than actual signatures, so there is a lot more support than there appears to be. Quick notes in case anyone has any questions for you when you post this.: 1. This isn't about forming a coalition of parties on the left, but merging all of the parties that have been cheated by our current system into 1 party. This is not about opposing the right-wing policies, but about making the electoral system fair. However, by making it fair, this makes the worst of the Conservative policies, such as privatising the NHS and its various other attacks on our public services, virtually impossible to get approved as they are so unpopular and they would only have about a third of the seats. 2. Whilst these parties do not have a lot in common, this merging would be very brief, lasting only long enough to repair the electoral system before going their separate ways and having another general election. This is not a request for them to stay merged for 5 years, which I do not think would work anyway. 3. While these parties could choose to form a coalition and only have 1 representative contesting each constituency, this would be less effective. Some voters will not support a different party no matter what, reducing the votes for reform. Also, this has been tried before with the Green Party and Plaid Cymru, only for the agreement to break down to some degree. If a coalition was made there would be a risk of it breaking down at least partially, especially with a high media focus on any disagreements fanning the flames. Merging parties however, would tie these parties together and prevent them from fielding more than 1 candidate in each constituency. 4. This is the most common response I've heard; there's no hope in changing anything. I've found that challenging this by saying that we must unite to make the system right is really effective. No matter how broken a system is, by outnumbering the Conservative vote by 2 to 1 it virtually guarantees victory. Even if the Tories then increased the scale of their electoral fraud in order to win, it'd be too large and too obvious for the election result to be accepted, at which point it could be challenged in court and the PR Alliance would win anyway. Well, that sorts out that update. Thank you for all of your support and enthusiastic responses, and above all, thank you for standing up for our public services. So many of our friends and family owe their lives to the services that are now under attack. By providing clear support for this proposal, we encourage the opposition parties to seriously consider uniting to protect these services so that they can save even more lives.