It is such a well-practiced line. And it sounds so reasonable and democratic. Deputy PM Dominic Rabb was asked on Tuesday (9th Nov.) what he and the government thought of Devon MP and former Attorney General Geoffrey Cox earning over £1 million in legal fees (in addition to his MP salary of £82,000) in the […]
The Progressive Alliance, the Labour Party and the rules that bind … or not
Many supporters of other parties have encountered Labour’s perpetual reluctance to cooperate to defeat the Tories, even if, as is now in 2021 the case, the facts unequivocally show that cooperation is the only way that the Tories can be defeated in many of their more vulnerable seats and in a General Election as a […]
No surprise: most MPs in safe seats favour FPTP
There is a close correlation between MPs who represent safe seats in Parliament AND those MPs who still support the archaic British voting system, a system which essentially guarantees they will keep on winning, election after election. That’s the main, if perhaps not startling, conclusion of research conducted by GET PR DONE! into the type […]
The bad news and good news about electoral reform
A major study of successful and failed attempts at electoral reform across the globe delivers both bad news and good news to us. Let’s get the bad news out of the way first. After assessing electoral reform promises and projects in fifteen “established democracies” in past decades, “most of the time, reform does not occur”, […]
Sympathy to the Winners
What does winning an election under first past the post feel like for the winners? This is a hypothetical journey for me, an exercise in empathy; because I am a perpetual loser. Not by other measures perhaps, but at 40 years old, by asserting my democratic voice I have only ever lost. I’ve chopped and […]