Tag archives for electoral reform
This election has proven that we need to overhaul our rigged democracy
Image credit: Young Greens There we go. Another general election, and this time things have really gone wrong. Johnson and his gang of extreme right wing Tories have got the…
To stop the Tories, Labour has to embrace proportional representation
Image credit: Ryan Hodnett - Creative Commons The case for proportional representation (PR) has never been stronger. The Conservatives have won a huge Parliamentary majority on of the vote. This…
What is the Green solution to Brexit?
Image Credit: Creative Commons: Alexas Fotos It’s the story you’ve heard a hundred times, and rightly so: citizens across the country, in the left-behind towns and cities. They have low…
Votes at 16, Von Trapps and Viable Electoral Reform
Photo credit: flickr user H2Woah! Creative Commons license: “I am 16 going on I know that I’m naive”; a classic quote from Liesel Von Trapp of ‘The Sound of…
How PR ‘completely transformed’ New Zealand politics: Metiria Turei, Green Party co-leader
Metiria Turei, Green party Co-leader. Photo credit: New Zealand Tertiary Education Union used under Creative Commons license: In 1996, New Zealand introduced the Mixed Member Proportion (MMP) voting system…
This boundary review risks skewing our democracy. It’s time to think again
By Slaunger (Own work) , via Wikimedia CommonsIt’s fair to say the boundary review has caused a stir. Why? Let’s start with the whole basis of this shakeup. The boundary…
How digital democracy can boost political engagement
Keyboard- by Marcie Casas, Creative Commons license Part of Bright Green’s new political engagement series This isn't a great time to be on the left. There can be no denying…
Both votes X and wasted votes: is it time to change Scotland’s voting system?
By Slaunger (Own work) , via Wikimedia Commons“Both Votes Labour,” voters were urged. “Lend Solidarity your vote on the PEACH paper”, Sheridan roared. Even newcomers were in on the act,…
10 things we took away from Green Party Conference
There weren’t many big headlines from this Autumn Green Party conference, which drew to a languid close in sunny Bournemouth on Monday. But it was a mixed bag in the…
From climate change to child poverty – it all comes back to electoral reform
Photo: Wikimedia. Come and sit with me on this sad little bench if you’re one of the 1,134,742 people who voted for a Green candidate in this year’s general election,…