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POWER 2010: The Pledge Revealed

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 [...]

Posted Under: Civil Liberties,Democracy,Human Rights
This post was written by Salman Shaheen on February 24, 2010 Comments (7)

If I Ruled the World: My Idea for Power2010

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 [...]

Posted Under: Democracy,Elections,GreenFeed
This post was written by Salman Shaheen on November 4, 2009 Comments (11)