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 […]
PR and the Constituency link
‘I cannot support a system that breaks the constituency link’ How many times have we all heard that one? It is one of the oldest lines trotted out in support of the winner-takes-all system. And it’s often deployed by MPs elected under that very system, in reply to constituents asking them to support a move […]
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 […]