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 […]
Chesham & Amersham by-election: a voters’ alliance from below
The lessons are already flowing in from the stunning LibDem byelection win in Chesham and Amersham (C & A): This was a master class in tactical voting, again mostly started by conversations over back fences, in back gardens and pubs It shows the practical wisdom of a progressive alliance, in this case an unofficial […]
The humbling in Hartlepool: an open letter to Keir Starmer
As a result of Labour’s humbling in the Hartlepool by-election last week, several commentators have suggested that you, as Labour leader, are planning to conduct what is often called a “wide-ranging policy review.” As a cross party/no party campaign group for electoral reform, we wish you good luck in this important enterprise. It gives us […]