Electoral reform supporters in the House of Commons get organised
Great to see an All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on electoral reform up and running again:
Glad to join the first meeting of the reformed APPG for Electoral Reform yesterday. @LibDems are proud to support reform but this cannot be viewed from a party-political lens. All parties should have an interest in making a more representative democracy that works for everyone. https://t.co/5sOHipBYE3
— Alistair Carmichael MP (@amcarmichaelMP) February 12, 2021
It’s being supported by exiting electoral reform organisations outside Parliament, such as the Electoral Reform Society:
NEW: The parliamentary push for electoral reform is stepping up a gear
We're proud to back the new @appgElectReform, along with @MakeVotesMatter and a fantastic range of cross-party MPs and peers. Watch this space! pic.twitter.com/ERuIMHZEFi
— Electoral Reform Society (@electoralreform) February 11, 2021
You can follow the APPG’s work via Twitter here.
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they need to make sure that the self interested status-quo lot don’t manage to water it down by mixing in all sorts of other issues, and they certainly don’t need a referendum!
They need to concentrate on the single issue of voting reform, and to make the decision under their existing mandate on which they were all elected, – ie. to do what is best for the country(- they dodged that one with the EU referendum).
Change the voting system and the rest of the reforms will follow.
Maybe a constitutional convention should follow the vote change to address all the other reform questions