Prominent Labour Party activist Laura Parker in a conversation on ‘Putting PR centre stage for Labour’ in a GET PR DONE ZOOM session on 15 February 2021. It is in two parts.
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How did other democracies get Proportional Representation?
The tide is turning for our archaic first-past-the-post (FPTP) voting system. Over 100 countries worldwide use some form of proportional representation (PR), while fewer than 50 still use FPTP. Sadly, while 40 out of 43 European countries use PR, as do Scotland and Wales for their legislatures, elections to Westminster are among those seemingly stuck […]
2005 – the worst election ever?
First Past the Post (FPTP) is a ridiculous method of selecting a government. It produces results that are neither fair nor predictable. All too frequently, it has produced governments that only attracted a minority of the votes cast and yet are given a comfortable majority of the seats at Parliament. One of the worst such […]
Open letter to the “Alliance for Radical Democratic Change” (AFRDC)
5th June 2023 We appreciate that your new Alliance is looking at the issue of democratic change which is vital in making our society more equitable. But we are sure that tens of thousands of electoral reformers will be very disappointed — indeed perplexed — by your decision to omit any reference to proportional representation […]
Make Votes Matter North Lancs debate on Proportional Representation
Labour Party members get it. But the Tory Party and the Labour leadership have chosen their partisan party interest over the interests of voters on the question of electoral reform, argues GET DR DONE! co-founder Alan Story in this debate with David Denver, former professor of political science at Lancaster University. The debate was organised […]