Ok, perhaps he’s not wrong about everything, but Reuben wrote an article yesterday with which I have several significant disagreements. My main problem with his assertions stem from this cringe-worthy little paragraph:
In places like Cambridge – where they grabbed a seat last time – they seemed to get the vote of those who treated voting [...]
After 4,500 submissions and 100,000 votes, the POWER 2010 pledge has finally been revealed.
1. Introduce a proportional voting system.
2. Scrap ID cards and roll back the database state.
3. Replace the House of Lords with an elected chamber.
4. Allow only English MPs to vote on English laws.
5. Draw up a written constitution.
I, and others writing for [...]
You may have noticed that the POWER2010 campaign and its supporters have been given a fair amount of air time on The Third Estate. The response from readers and other bloggers has been mixed. Some have argued that the organisation is correct to thow open the question of fixing Britain’s broken democracy to its people. [...]
Guest post by Guy Aitchison
POWER2010 is entering the final stretch of its public vote to find the very top ideas that will fix UK politics.
With over 4,000 ideas submitted, boiled down to a list of 29 by the deliberations of a representative sample of the UK, and then opened up to the public vote, almost 100,000 [...]
Guest post by Oli Henman
How do we decide about democracy? What are the major changes that would lead to transparent politics?
Last weekend people from across the UK were given that chance- this was the moment when the key ideas that have been brought together from across the country on the POWER 2010 website were put [...]
The Third Estate is brought to you today by the letters DEMOCRACY and the number 2010. In just one month the Power2010 campaign has received over 2000 ideas to reform our political system. To highlight their launch, I invited Guy Aitchison to set out the campaign’s stall in a piece that was met with mixed [...]
For those, like me, who have lived all their lives in a democracy, the impending coronation of Europe’s president is a rather strange affair. We can leave aside the fact that the people of most of Europe were given no say on the creation of the post. We could even leave aside that – for [...]
Tomorrow, for the first time, the leader of a fascist party will appear on the panel of a televised national debate. Nick Griffin’s appearance on Question Time has caused quite a stir in the mainstream media and in the blogosphere. Some, remaining steadfast to the principle of no platform, have campaigned vigorously against the BBC’s [...]
Guest post by Guy Aitchison
It is time for those who want a new politics to work together for change
With the party conferences over and MPs returning to Westminster today following their 82-day break, now seems like a good moment to reflect on the crisis that engulfed the political class during the early summer months and [...]
Guest post by Steve Goodrich
Before we get saturated by over-zealous coverage of the conference season it is perhaps time to step back and look at the state of Britain’s political parties. Despite the new logos, leaders and spin, they have undoubtedly been under strain in recent years.
Over the past two decades alone, party membership [...]
