UK Electoral Reforms.
June 11th 2009 18:12
After being given one of the biggest political scares of his life, Prime Minister Brown has decided he does, after all, wish to listen to the people. I take his statement with more than just a grain of salt.
He states that he wants to 'clean up' parliament. The measures he has in mind to help carry out this enormous task are:
Lowering the voting age to 16.
Giving constituents the power to 'recall' their MP.
Introducing an elected House of Lords.
Allowing the public to choose which issues should be debated in parliament.
Drafting a written constitution.
Ditching the present 'first past the post' voting system.
The Conservative leader David Cameron accused the PM of treating the elctorate like fools and promoting reforms to try and stay in power. He accused the PM of wanting to change the rules after being thrashed in the local and European elections of last week.
The first thing I noticed was the fact there is no mention of reforming MPs expenses.
My belief is he will try and devise a system of voting which will be of benefit to his party rather than to the people. If he is thinking of going down the 'Proportional Representation' route, he should think again. If PR (the favoured choice of the European Union) had been used in last week's elections, the extremist BNP would have doubled their seats from two to four.
The people spoke out last week. PM Brown did not like it. Only now, after finally realising he and his cronies are due to be shown the door to the political wilderness, as he decided to "listen". I would suggest he has "listened" too late.
He states that he wants to 'clean up' parliament. The measures he has in mind to help carry out this enormous task are:
Lowering the voting age to 16.
Giving constituents the power to 'recall' their MP.
Introducing an elected House of Lords.
Allowing the public to choose which issues should be debated in parliament.
Drafting a written constitution.
The Conservative leader David Cameron accused the PM of treating the elctorate like fools and promoting reforms to try and stay in power. He accused the PM of wanting to change the rules after being thrashed in the local and European elections of last week.
The first thing I noticed was the fact there is no mention of reforming MPs expenses.
My belief is he will try and devise a system of voting which will be of benefit to his party rather than to the people. If he is thinking of going down the 'Proportional Representation' route, he should think again. If PR (the favoured choice of the European Union) had been used in last week's elections, the extremist BNP would have doubled their seats from two to four.
The people spoke out last week. PM Brown did not like it. Only now, after finally realising he and his cronies are due to be shown the door to the political wilderness, as he decided to "listen". I would suggest he has "listened" too late.
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