Showing posts with label Electoral Reform. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Electoral Reform. Show all posts
Monday, October 12, 2026

The Joy of Six 1590

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Jonathan Wilson  explains why we're stuck with a Premier League in the clutches of the global mega-rich: "Clubs represent their com...
Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Will Labour back the reform of parliamentary elections next week?

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Neal Lawson writes in the Guardian : Next Wednesday, the representation of the people bill will come before parliament for its final stages...
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Saturday, June 27, 2026

The Joy of Six 1539

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Roz Savage says our electoral system is not just unfair but dangerous: "Manifestos are written for floating voters in constituencies t...
Thursday, May 14, 2026

Zack Polanski in a Yes to AV campaign video

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I remember very little of the Alternative Vote referendum campaign except that it turned out to be a referendum on Nick Clegg instead. The o...
Sunday, March 01, 2026

The Joy of Six 1482

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Writing in the wake of the Gorton and Denton by-election, Hannah White says our political institutions are dangerously underprepared for a ...
Monday, November 03, 2025

The Joy of Six 1430

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David Howarth knows how to make the BBC less afraid of Nigel Farage: "Proportional representation would free the BBC from fear, but mo...
Saturday, June 28, 2025

The Joy of Six 1378

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Sienna Rogers says No. 10 sleepwalked into a crisis on welfare cuts: "The media rounds of ministers only deepened the frustration of d...
Saturday, May 24, 2025

GUEST POST Forget your two-horse race: Increasingly it's a cavalry charge

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Augustus Carp wanders off from his usual subjective enquiries into councillor defections to consider some objective examples of real voters...
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Friday, December 13, 2024

Vince Cable nails Labour's "big mistake" in opposition

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The University of York student newspaper York Vision has an interview with the city's famous son Vince Cable. Asked for his reaction to...
Tuesday, December 03, 2024

59 Labour MPs support Sarah Olney's electoral reform bill

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Today the Commons voted to give Sarah Olney leave to introduce her 10-minute rule bill to bring in "a system of proportional representa...
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Thursday, September 19, 2024

The next Senedd elections will present a different challenge to the Lib Dems

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A largely positive article about the Liberal Democrats by Jonathan Edwards for Nation Cymru points up an irony. We Lib Dems have become ver...
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Tuesday, July 09, 2024

GUEST POST The Lib Dems must meet the challenge of the Greens in the new political landscape

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How can the Lib Dems continue to grow after last week's historic advance? Anselm Anon argues that, to do so, we must meet the challenge...
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Sunday, June 02, 2024

Changing to FPTP won the Tories up to a dozen PCC elections

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Writing on University College London's The Constitution Unit Blog , Alan Renwick examines how the change to the first past the post syst...
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

The Joy of Six 1205

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"The rule of law is being eroded because parliament is weak. The Executive is able to ride roughshod over political processes because l...
Tuesday, October 03, 2023

The Joy of Six 1166

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"If the introduction of proportional representation is a Lib Dem red line, then the party needs to work out now how it would secure the...
Thursday, August 17, 2023

The Joy of Six 1154

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"Both ideologies involve a shocking indifference to evidence and data. They reflect a bulldog belief that Britain will always be better...
Monday, March 13, 2023

Three Leicester Labour councillors to be disciplined for opposing mayoral system

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Last week Leicester City Council debated a motion to abolish its current elected mayoral and return to a traditional committee system. It wa...
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Thursday, January 05, 2023

The Joy of Six 1101

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Neal Lawson believes there’s no point Labour winning the next election unless it acts to dismantle our toxic electoral system. "Truss ...
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Saturday, August 14, 2021

The Joy of Six 1021

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Jane Dodds argues that Wales can thrive with a basic income: "A basic income has five core characteristics: It’s paid in cash, so it’s ...