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A letter to GreenPeace

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As Greenpeace an international environmental campaign are backing “Take back Parliament” which strikes me as a tad odd, I thought I’d write to them and ask: 1) How it fitted with their other campaigns and will they be campaigning in other countries? 2) If they felt it was appropriate for an international charity such as themselves to be campaigning to change the electoral system of a democratic nation? My e-mail is below, and I shall report on any response I get, I’d also note that they don’t mention this sort of campaigning on their donate page – hardly honest open … Continue reading →

Purple power

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The demands for electoral reform continue apace even if the Take back Parliament campaign isn’t really a grass roots campaign. Apart from the groups acknowledge as being behind it on the website a quick whois lookup shows the campaign is being handled by Blue state digitial which must be costing someone a pretty penny. But that aside a campaign for electoral reform is a good thing, though purely electoral reform without more general parliamentary reform is going to leave things really quite messy. As I muttered earlier I’m against any system (such as the currently mooted AV) which either breaks … Continue reading →

And now back to the bad

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Whilst I obviously welcome our new overlords, I can’t help but notice that they seem to have an odd idea of electoral reform, and as Tom Harris observes it doesn’t really fit well with either the Tories claim to want to return power to the people, and quite odd that the LibDems seem to be happy going along with it. The particular bit of reform that Mr Harris is concerned about is to change the vote of no-confidence in a government from a simple majority to 55%. Such a change only makes sense in that it allows a minority government … Continue reading →