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• Post Revival: We are Separatists

  
  Challenging the Commonplace — Authority: 127
  Encouraged by Boris Option 3, I think it a good time to revive this post, written by Daphne and I in January 2009. The situation has not improved since then.*** For a long time, Ive pondered the benefit of my community, now Vancouver Island, being part of the political entity that is the Dominion of Canada. Not ...
  18 hours ago

• Gladstone was a political giant compared to our puny, modern MPs | Geoffrey Wheatcroft

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Born 200 years ago today, Gladstones vast intellect and personal dynamism inspired awed admiration from political friend and foe alike On the day in March 1894 when William Ewart Gladstone resigned as prime minister for the last time, he went to church, wrote half a dozen letters and saw half a dozen people, before ...
  2 days ago

• David Taylor obituary

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Popular Labour backbench MP who was prepared to vote against his own government David Taylor, the Labour MP for North West Leicestershire, who has died from a heart attack aged 63, was that rare thing among politicians: someone who was liked and admired equally by his constituents, his parliamentary colleagues and ...
  3 days ago

• LibLink … Vince Cable: Hard hats on, here comes the Rotten Election

  
  Liberal Democrat Voice — Authority: 138
  Over at the Mail today, Lib Dem deputy leader Vince Cable anticipates a year of fevered political battle, and issues a call for a reformed political system and a grown-up debate. Here’s an excerpt: Once the seasonal festivities are out of the way, the public will be on the receiving end of months of sustained ...
  4 days ago

• What the papers say…

  
  Liberal Democrat Voice — Authority: 138
  Civil  servants are as bad as bankers … The Telegraph trumpets Gladstone’s anniversary … Tories support Labour’s school Sats Tests … Another dodgy Tory donor exposed … Labour split on voting reform … Lords skim expenses cream … BBC to make film on Thorpe tragedy … what Chris Huhne thinks of Prince ...
  5 days ago

• Nudge, not legislate, voter turnout!

  
  Urbanomics — Authority: 129
  The Gujarat government have recently passed a legislation making voting in local government elections compulsory . If the voter fails to vote for the reasons other than prescribed in the rules, he may be declared a "defaulter voter" and would face consequences for which rules will be framed and approved in due ...
  1 week ago

• A nice constitutional crisis: Labour win on a smaller share of the vote than the Tories

  
  A National Conversation For England — Authority: 109
  Imagine this election scenario: the Tories win the largest share of the vote across the UK, but Labour are returned to office with a small majority. It could happen: the Conservatives actually have to win by a margin of around 9% to secure an overall majority, owing to the absurdities of the First Past the Post voting ...
  1 week ago

• Camerons plan to remove anti-Tory bias in electoral system wont work

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Two academic studies say Tory leaders plan to cut number of MPs by 65 will not create level playing field for Conservatives David Cameron wants to cut the number of MPs by 65. As he explained in September in a speech called Cutting the Cost of Politics, thats partly because he wants to save money. But he has also ...
  1 week ago

• Felipe Calderon proposes pro-democracy electoral reforms in Mexico

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 560
  Story here from Townhall . Excerpt: President Felipe Calderon is proposing runoff elections in future presidential contests and re-election for many officials in Mexico’s most dramatic political reform attempt in decades. The proposal announced Tuesday would still limit presidents to a single, six-year term, ...
  2 weeks ago

• The driving force needed for radical parliamentary reform

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Tristram Hunts necessarily condensed comparison of the present parliamentary expenses scandal with the reform of electoral malpractice in the 1830s might convey a misleading impression of the determinants of the 1832 franchise reforms ( Rotten MPs outraged 1830s Britain, but at least had the sense to reform , 9 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nina Fishman obituary

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Historian, political activist and outstanding character of the British left With the death of the political historian and activist Nina Fishman, who has died of cancer aged 63, the British left has lost one of its most outstanding and original personalities. Born in San Francisco, Nina was a genuine "red baby". Her ...
  2 weeks ago

• “Clones and drones” versus Sturm und Drang politics

  
  Larvatus Prodeo — Authority: 543
  One of the points I’ve made over and over again, before, during and after the 2007 election was that the electorate had tired of the noise level; the ranting and raving and constant theatrics of the Howard government. In voting for Kevin Rudd, people were voting, among other things, for someone who appeared safe, ...
  2 weeks ago

• 35.6

  
  They Call Me "Mr. Sinister" — Authority: 435
  Thats the governments polling number this week. Even after it has been made clear to everyone that the government knew about, but did nothing to stop, prisoners from being tortured for over a year, over one in three voters are willing to back the Conservatives. While, in a normal world, this would be not a bad ...
  2 weeks ago

• Total recall

  
  The Poll Bludger — Authority: 421
  Insert Joe Tripodi-Kristina Keneally joke here The New South Wales Labor government must be wondering if it can make it to the March 2011 election without suffering a revolution. The Sydney Morning Herald is inviting readers to sign a petition in support of a “recall initiative”, an innovation associated ...
  2 weeks ago

• Morgan phone poll: 53-47

  
  The Poll Bludger — Authority: 421
  I held off doing a post on yesterday’s unconvincing Morgan phone poll result in the hope they would give us a face-to-face poll this week, but either they’ve gone on Christmas break or are returning to their old pattern of combining results fortnightly. Yesterday’s effort was a phone poll from a sample of just ...
  2 weeks ago

• Politics Weekly live

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Welcome to a special edition of the Politics Weekly podcast, recorded in front of a live audience at the Guardians headquarters in London. Allegra Stratton and Tom Clark are joined by Polly Toynbee , Simon Jenkins and Nick Cohen to reflect on the MPs expenses scandal and the other key political ...
  3 weeks ago

• Event report: Jack Straw lecture

  
  The Progressive — Authority: 111
  Yesterday Jack Straw the Justice Minister spoke as the latest speaker in Progresses ongoing lecture series on New Thinking for Britain’s Next Decade. The lecture chaired by Jessica Asato, Acting Director of Progress, focused on Labour’s achievements since 1997, the main differences between Labour and the Tories, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Rotten MPs outraged 1830s Britain, but at least had the sense to reform | Tristram Hunt

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 152
  A parliamentary history of a strangely familiar era should tell Westminster how to respond to the publics contempt today To me, personally, parliament is everything; the members are the staunchest friends man ever had; the life combines the mental gymnastics of college with the fresh wind of the outer world … The ...
  3 weeks ago

• The case against Tom Harris case for first-past-the-post

  
  Mark Reckons — Authority: 99
  Tom Harris, the leading blogger and Labour MP has done a blogpost today which I feel needs a riposte. I know some people think I bang on about electoral reform too much but today I can honestly say a bigger blogging boy made me do it. I have quoted his main points along with my thoughts below: ...even ...
  3 weeks ago

• The case for first-past-the-post

  
  And another thing... — Authority: 605
  IT’S DISCOURAGING how easily some people descend to name-calling when they’re attempting to make an argument for a particular policy. I’ve written previously about my irritation at those who describe climate change sceptics as “deniers” in an infantile and transparent attempt to equate them in the public ...
  3 weeks ago

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