So many manifestos — who has the answers?
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Voting systems, House of Lords, devolution, MP accountability. What's actually broken?
Proportional Representation is a Joke, Let's Fix It Properly
Why should someone in a safe seat effectively have their vote count for nothing? It’s baffling. We elect MPs to represent us, but in vast swathes of the country, the outcome is a foregone conclusion. People say they want change, but the sys
This whole FPTP thing is a joke. We need PR NOW.
Honestly, how many more elections do we have to go through where the Tories or Labour get in with a minority of the vote? It’s infuriating. People feel like their vote doesn't count, especially in safe seats, and it just entrenches the same
Let's Stop Pretending First Past the Post Actually Works
Why do we let a system where the party with fewer votes can win a majority of seats keep going? It’s frankly ridiculous. It means your vote often doesn't count for much unless you're in a marginal constituency, and it distorts representatio
Scrap the Bloc Vote Now - It's Time for True Representation!
I was chatting with Sarah the other day about the upcoming local elections, and she was lamenting how her vote felt utterly wasted on her usual party. She knows their candidate hasn't got a snowball's chance in hell of winning in her ward,
Let's ditch First Past the Post before my local council gets even weirder
I was at a parish council meeting last week, and honestly, it was a joke. The turnout was pathetic, and the same three people decide everything, even though the ward is split pretty evenly between a few different views. It just reinforces h
Frankly, the whole First Past the Post system is a shambles. Time for a rethink.
It truly does baffle me how we continue with a system that so consistently underrepresents vast swathes of the electorate. I spent years in education, trying to teach young people about democracy, and yet I had to explain that their vote mi
Westminster's electoral games are rigging the Welsh vote, time for a change
It drives me mad seeing how our votes in Wales seem to count for so little when it comes to the bigger picture. Westminster just cobbles together whatever system suits them at the time, and we end up with governments that don’t even have a
End this two-party madness: let's have proportional representation already.
We should implement a form of proportional representation, specifically the Single Transferable Vote, for all general elections. It’s the only way to ensure that the seats in Parliament actually reflect the votes cast by the public. The cur
If politicians don't have to live by the rules, why should anyone else?
Why should people who break the law get to keep their jobs, especially when they’re meant to be upholding it? It makes no sense. We’ve got politicians getting themselves arrested and then just carrying on as if nothing happened. It’s a joke
Westminster doesn't listen to Scotland because the voting system lets them off the hook every single time
It just gets on my nerves how Westminster parties only ever care about a handful of swing seats down south. Our votes here in Scotland feel like they don't count for anything in the grand scheme of things, especially when it comes to a gene
Scrap the TV debates for good
I was at the pub the other night and overheard a group of people talking about the latest by-election results. One of them mentioned how the winner was nowhere to be found after the result was announced. It got me thinking about how our ele
Enough is Enough: Let's Get Real MPs Back in Parliament
Saw another one of those televised Commons debates the other day. All these people in suits, talking over each other, pretending they know what’s going on in places like Watford. They’d never last five minutes on a Saturday at the DIY store
Serious Business Demands Serious Conduct: Westminster's Circus Must End
The current state of affairs in Westminster is more than just a turn-off for voters. It’s actively undermining the ability to conduct serious national and international business. When the place descends into shouting and personal attacks, i
Right, so how can this chap win by-elections when the main parties don't even bother showing up? Utter farce.
What’s the point of an election if the major parties can just boycott it and let anyone win? Seriously, it’s a bit of a laugh, isn't it? If the big boys can’t be bothered to turn up to defend their turf, then we need to make them. It’s not
Institute a National Week of Quiet Surrender so we can finally stop pretending
Proposal: every year, for one full week in late october, the United Kingdom will officially suspend the pretence that things are getting better. Government will stop announcing initiatives. Ministers will stop appearing in hi-vis. Nobody wi
Clean Up Parliament's Act
I think we should introduce stricter rules on parliamentary language and behaviour to prevent the kind of abuse we see in the Commons these days. It's about time someone took a stand and said enough is enough, we need to restore some dignit
Time to Get Real in Westminster
I'm sick of all the nonsense in Westminster, it's about time someone spoke some sense. All this shouting and posturing, it's like a bunch of kids in a playground. Our politicians should be better than that, they should be working for US, no
Mandatory 4-hour committee meetings before any revolutionary action. No exceptions.
Brothers. And sisters. And anyone else, we passed that motion at the last committee meeting. Revolutionary action without committee approval is adventurism. Adventurism leads to splinter groups. Splinter groups lead to the People's Popular
A five-year ban on former ministers lobbying their own department, with real enforcement
The Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (ACOBA) is a fig leaf. It has no statutory powers. It can be ignored, and regularly is. When a former minister takes a lobbying role that touches their old brief, the committee issues a polite
Hold at least one council meeting a month in a pub. Yes really.
Went to a council meeting last week. They held it in a community centre on the edge of town at 2 in the afternoon on a wednesday. Eleven people attended. Four of them were the council. Two were press. Three were retired. One was me. One was
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