The usual knock-back by British lefties against proportional representation (PR) is that it generates moderate governments and keeps the left out of power. Better to try “one last heave” and hope that the full socialist programme of a democratic socialist party wins the endorsement of enough voters to gain power. Then it will be “game […]
The Big Sleaze
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 […]
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”, […]
The Battle of Batley: an electoral stinker!
Whenever Norwich South Labour MP Clive Lewis speaks on the value of proportional representation, he almost always adds this caveat: “But of course PR is NOT a silver bullet for the many problems we face.” In this March 2021 video, they are very first words to come out of Clive’s mouth. That’s […]