Sentences with phrase «pr second chamber»

(Give me benevolent dictator powers, and I might go for an AV / AMS 50 - 50 hybrid rather than AV + or AMS, though I would see straight AV, with PR second chamber and STV in local government as a very good advance in the real world; and think there is a coherent case).

Not exact matches

On the point about legitimacy: I think you are being very optimistic in assuming that the Commons will continue to be seen as properly superior to the second chamber when the latter is elected on the basis of PR and the Commons is elected on the basis of AV.

Sunder's proposal to combine AV for the Commons with PR for the second chamber makes little sense to me.

«Yet the Coalition is preparing to replace that House with a new second chamber elected by means of regional party lists» Factually untrue, Tories hate closed list PR even more than Lib Dems do, the plan is, and always was, for elections to be run using STV (also known as the British Proportional System, as used for the Australian Senate).

Far better to choose Party List PR (including the Independent list) It is the most common form of PR and most appropriate for the second chamber.

The commission overwhelmingly backed regional «list» PR systems for the European Parliament and a second chamber to replace the Lords.

But there is also a good deal to be said for AV, as a major advance on what we have now, particularly if combined with PR for a second chamber and local government, along with other measures such as devolution and entrenched rights that constrain the kind of untrammeled use of majority power we saw in the 1980s.

A compromise would be to keep FPTP for the commons (and with it important direct local linkage between an MP and their constituency), but to have a much slimmed down second chamber that is 100 % elected at the same time as a general election but on PR and from party lists.

We need PR, elected second chamber, devolution and a willingness to work with others to get there.