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A personal history of First Past the Post 1950 – 2010
This blog is a guest piece by one of our members, Alan Errock.I’m now 86 and have voted in election after election, but my vote has seldom counted towards the result. Here is my history of a life under...
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Did Proportional Representation put the Nazis in power?
Probably the first time many of us heard of Proportional Representation (PR) was in a school classroom studying the Second World War. For some people this may have been the last time they heard about...
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Does Proportional Representation give too much power to small parties?
It’s sometimes claimed that under proportional representation (PR), tiny parties have a lot of power, as they get to decide who to go into coalition with and therefore who forms the government. Under...
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Does Proportional Representation break the constituency link?
The constituency link is a vital part of British political life; MPs represent local areas and are directly accountable to those areas for their continued careers. If MPs misbehave their constituents...
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Costly cronies of the House of Lords
In our new report, House of Lords Fact vs Fiction, we took a look at some of the enduring myths that surround our unelected second chamber. Peers are technically unpaid, but unlike the thousands of...
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Party over Principle: Independence in the Lords
The House of Lords is often assumed to be more independent than the Commons because it is less strongly whipped and because it contains Crossbench members who do not have a party affiliation.But it’s a...
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Our bloated second chamber
The House of Lords is already the biggest chamber in the democratic world - yet it is growing in size with each new government. As peers sit in the chamber for life, it grows with each new Prime...
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Move House for Electoral Reform! Facts behind our April Fools
Whilst the day-to-day effects of First Past the Post for communities around Britain is closer to a tragedy – for one day a year we attempt, along with everyone else, to spread our message using light...
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Electoral Reform in Parliament again
Two of our issues are back in the House of Commons this week as Caroline Lucas, the Green Party MP for Brighton Pavilion, will be presenting her ‘Electoral Reform (Proportional Representation and...
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David Cameron’s Farewell Gift
Now that David Cameron has moved out of Number 10, the staggering bill he has left behind is starting to become apparent. Since 2010, he has appointed 205 new life peers to the House of Lords –...
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The Return of the Gerrymander
With all the media attention focusing on the upcoming American Presidential Election, it’s easy to forget that it isn’t the only election happening on that day. Voters up and down the country will be...
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