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Last Night of Voting for POWER 2010 Pledge

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 [...]

On Power2010: We Need Electoral Reform. Everything Else Can Wait

So, Power2010 has been criticised on the grounds that it won’t have the massive reach and appeal that it’s aiming for. This seems likely to be true, but how much does it matter? I don’t think that in order to revive mass popular interest in our political system it’s necessary to have a campaign which [...]