Electoral Reform
AV referendum to be announced next week & held in May
Left Foot Forward understands from a source close to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister that the timetable for the promised referendum on AV will be announced next week, and that the referendum itself is most likely to be scheduled to coincide with the May 2011 Local Elections.
How proportional is PR for Black and ethnic minority people?
Without wide changes in party leadership, membership and party procedures, electoral reform will not result in our representatives being any more proportionate.
Fair Votes Now protest in Parliament
The Take Back Parliament protest in London today demanded "Fair Votes Now" as around 1,000 marched from Parliament Square to the scene of the Liberal Democrat Executive meeting.
Making the case for votes at 16
Labour’s manifesto promise for “a free vote in Parliament on reducing the voting age to 16” has once again forced the issue of voting age back into the news.
The imbalance of power
In the UK the luckiest fifth of voters have more than 33 times more power than the unluckiest 20%. This is a far more uneven distribution than household income.
Scorched earth Tories scupper electoral reform
The Tories chose a scorched earth policy rather than trust in their arguments on first-past-the-post (FPTP) or in the judgment of the on to the British people.