Representative democracy, Part Two: Can it work?
In the second of 2 parts, Bob Bater discusses how voting could be made fairer. Could...
Read moreIn the second of 2 parts, Bob Bater discusses how voting could be made fairer. Could...
Read moreWith public disaffection with politics at its highest level ever, an overhaul of our voting system...
Read moreAnn Black calls on her party to wake up to the risks of not backing PR,...
Read morePhilip Cole gives us a condensed explanation of what Proportional Representation (PR) does and what it...
Read moreClaire Jones imagines the Labour leader undergoing a Damascene conversion to proportional representation
Read moreThe current electoral system prevents people voting for their preferred Labour, LibDem or Green candidate. Proportional...
Read moreMichael writes about his visit to the Make Votes Matter conference and analyses why PR is...
Read moreCampaign group Makes Votes Matter (MVM) surveyed local councillors on the introduction of Proportional Representation (PR)...
Read morePress Release: Compass Oxfordshire follow their tactical voting recommendations for Cherwell with these for West Oxfordshire.
Read moreAn Oxford resident is concerned that the requirement for voter ID in the upcoming local elections...
Read moreTactical voting may be necessary but the real solution to our undemocratic electoral system is Proportional...
Read moreThese three letters demonstrate the need for tactical voting in our current ‘First Past The Post’...
Read moreNew writer Mary calls on today’s Labour politicians not to ignore Proportional Representation like their predecessors...
Read moreAn Oxford voter writes that voter ID requirements are deeply concerning, as is the lack of...
Read moreThe campaign group, Oxfordshire Compass, issues tactical voting recommendations to remove Conservatives from Cherwell District Council,...
Read moreMichelle argues that the only way that UK will tackle climate change is by moving to...
Read moreThree progressive activists outline ‘the good society’, the deceptiveness of current UK polling, and our route...
Read moreDoug Crawford discusses what must happen to restore democracy: overcoming voter cynicism, electoral reform, and a...
Read moreLabour will need PR to protect itself from internal and external sabotage and hence to survive...
Read moreStarmer seems prepared to risk a return of Tory Rule by ignoring the calls for PR...
Read moreThe House of Lords is an expensive insult to democracy and opinion polls show that the...
Read moreRegional assemblies in England would end the domination of Westminster based government and give us a...
Read moreCitizens' Assemblies enable a more effective representation for communities than unrepresentative MPs.
Read moreThe Labour Campaign for Electoral Reform in the South West were instrumental in the Labour Party...
Read moreIf you have a Labour MP please ask them to support electoral reform at the party...
Read moreMany people say they want PR but what is it exactly? Philip explains what is PR...
Read more'We have to be like other 21st century democracies and share power, not hoard it' says...
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