I absolutely agree with you. First-past-the-post hasn't been fit for purpose for years upon years.
I have a question, though. Does the systemic reform you're discussing include legislating to clean up how elections and political parties are funded and to remove the malign influence of Big Money, Big-Money-funded think tanks Big-Money-funded social media manipulation etc.? Surely all this is also an integral part of the electoral system, surely?
Or is it a parallel track? If it is, I'd certainly view it as an equally worthy investment of political capital.
And what about reform of the way politicians can use peerages as a rewards system and stuff the House of Lords? Although reform of the HoL would be even better, of course. O know it's not directly about the electoral system, but it is about who represents "We, the people" of the UK.
I think it is VITAL that we have some form of PR, but also the opportunity to make a positive vote "None of the above". We know for whom people want to vote, but not vote against. I would also be for mandatory voting
When political capital, since the Second World War, has failed to provide you and I with somewhere safe and warm for us to live, we might agree that the politics of the UK has consistently failed the nation for, at least, 80 years.
Political Capital is mostly expended in keeping politicians “safe and warm” throughout their lives. This is why attempts to reform the electoral system, lobbying and the merry-go-round of ex-MP’s, ex-ministers, retired senior civil servants and armed forces leaders, is doomed to failure.
I absolutely agree with you. First-past-the-post hasn't been fit for purpose for years upon years.
I have a question, though. Does the systemic reform you're discussing include legislating to clean up how elections and political parties are funded and to remove the malign influence of Big Money, Big-Money-funded think tanks Big-Money-funded social media manipulation etc.? Surely all this is also an integral part of the electoral system, surely?
Or is it a parallel track? If it is, I'd certainly view it as an equally worthy investment of political capital.
And what about reform of the way politicians can use peerages as a rewards system and stuff the House of Lords? Although reform of the HoL would be even better, of course. O know it's not directly about the electoral system, but it is about who represents "We, the people" of the UK.
I think it is VITAL that we have some form of PR, but also the opportunity to make a positive vote "None of the above". We know for whom people want to vote, but not vote against. I would also be for mandatory voting
When political capital, since the Second World War, has failed to provide you and I with somewhere safe and warm for us to live, we might agree that the politics of the UK has consistently failed the nation for, at least, 80 years.
Political Capital is mostly expended in keeping politicians “safe and warm” throughout their lives. This is why attempts to reform the electoral system, lobbying and the merry-go-round of ex-MP’s, ex-ministers, retired senior civil servants and armed forces leaders, is doomed to failure.