Sentences with phrase «electoral reform as»

The singer Billy Bragg, a high - profile campaigner against the British National Party, will today argue for electoral reform as a crucial step to marginalising extremist politicians.

Tactical union: David Cameron swayed sceptical Tories by revealing Gordon brown's plans to concede electoral reform as the price of a Lib - Lab pact

To start, Tony Blair reneged on his 1997 promises of electoral reform as his weighty majorities were too good to lose.

• Simon Hughes has described Tories opposed to electoral reform as «Neanderthal» in an interview in the Independent on Sunday.

A hung parliament, leading to electoral reform as the price the Lib Dems will try to exact as a condition of supporting a minority administration, could be the key.

It is why he went into the coalition negotiations ready to drop his party's tuition fees pledge - and much else besides - but with electoral reform as non-negotiable.

For decades, electoral reform as the price of co-operation in a hung parliament was the Liberal and Liberal Democrat dream.

It would, one assumes, prefer to negotiate an agreement with the Liberal Democrats than submit to Conservative rule, and would perhaps offer electoral reform as bait.

Unlock Democracy's protest on Saturday succeeded in attracting support from Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg and the group is hoping its efforts will help strengthen the party's resolve in calling for a referendum on electoral reform as coalition negotiations continue.

In the meantime, to those Tom Harris charcaters in the Labour party who want to present electoral reform as an issue of relevance only to bourgeois liberal Guardian - readers (like me), I say: how dare you oppose a system that — on the evidence of Soskice and Iversen's study — is better for social spending and economic equality?

I agree that I'd like to see electoral reform as one of the issues debated in the leadership contest.

Not exact matches

The Every Voter Counts Alliance, bringing together over 60 organizations from across the country representing diverse groups, will be hosting a press conference on Parliament Hill later this morning just as the special parliamentary committee on electoral reform is set to begin its deliberations.

So, Mr. Kenney, who just this week was appointed to the parliamentary committee studying electoral reform, could be abandoning plans to replace Rona Ambrose as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and setting his sights on uniting - the - right and challenging Rachel Notley «s moderate New Democratic Party government in 2019.

A joint study of the voters» rolls by electoral reform groups Bersih and Engage found some cases in which dead voters were re-registered, and one voter whose birth year was listed as 1897

These include holding open Cabinet meetings at least once a month, which will be broadcasted on the Internet; giving Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) a greater role by reforming the Legislative committee system and allowing government MLAs to vote freely (as opposed to voting according to the Party's preferences); restricting the tenure of a premier to two (four - year) terms; holding a Citizen's Assembly on electoral reform to examine alternative models for electing MLAs; instituting a system by which citizens can recall elected officials; and instituting elections for all government boards and commissions.

A key point in the drama comes when the camera lingers on Cameron's expression as he tells Tory backbenchers that Labour may have just offered the Lib Dems electoral reform without a referendum.

By the time he goes to the country again he needs House of Lords reform set in stone and civil liberties reinstalled, with AV acting as the electoral system used to judge his achievements.

They claim boundary changes was introduced as a quid pro quo for the May 2011 referendum on electoral reform, in which the public rejected the alternative vote system by a ratio of two votes to one.

The vote, which took place as the Commons debates Lords amendments to the electoral registration and administration bill, will deepen already intense bitterness on the government backbenches over the coalition's stalled constitutional reform agenda.

As I outlined on my blog today, the question for Nick Clegg and the Lib Dems is, how do they best achieve electoral reform?

For social democrats, it means reflecting on how institutional forms can be entrenched within the fabric of society, rather than swept away immediately in the wake of electoral defeat as may be the fate of Labour's social reforms in the United Kingdom.

I have no doubt what I think the answer to «should Labour campaign for electoral reform» is, as regular readers will know.

However, I do see AV as a positive move in the right direction, but it is not the be-all and end - all of electoral reform.

The most important thing is that analysing past elections & predicting future elections is ridiculous, since electoral reform will hopefully change the political parties and the political process anyway, to make them more responsive to the genuine majority view, instead of the tribal attitude we see when Paul suggests that we should keep FPTP as the best way of electing a Labour government.

I am fully aware that coalition politics is the norm rather than the UK's traditional adversarial approach, and of course all those who favour electoral reform, as I do, should accept that coalition will result.

If they really cared about electoral reform, I suspect they'd have made the Lib Dems an offer they couldn't refuse by now, much as Sunny suggested two days ago.

In the case of electoral reform, they were humiliated at the ballot box, as the alternative vote system was rejected by 67.9 % to 32.1 %.

There has been a widespread assumption that the Conservatives have nothing to gain from electoral reform, and the work that has been done so far — such as the YouGov poll for the Spectator earlier this month — has indeed suggested that the Tories would be the biggest net losers when comparing A.V. with First Past The Post (FPTP).

(ref earlier, I know AV isn't technically PR, but didn't want to use the phrase «electoral reform» as I'm in favour of early voting, mobile voting etc and not everyone might understand electoral reform in the narrow technical sense)

Bluntly, your hope is that an issue that matters to you and to many educated middle - class people (but not to most Labour voters, who may well regard the idea in the same way as many Conservatives, as a way to give unfair influence to Liberal Democrats), electoral reform, is important enough to form an electoral alliance over, despite the fact this would leave many party members unable to vote (and who would get to stand in say Durham or Redcar anyway?).

As for how to combat the problem, voters were split between law enforcement reforms or the electoral process.

The problem is that Blunkett is a compulsive statist who really loves power without the constraints that regular coalitions or party alliances would introduce as a consequence of electoral reform with some element of PR — such as the proposals of the Hansard Society in 1976 or the AV + prosposals of the Jenkins Commission: http://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/article.php?id=56

Regarding electoral reform and AV, I've said this before and I'll say it again: I really don't see it as being much of a goer.

Both of these, in the form of a manifesto commitment to a referendum on electoral reform, and as an exploration of the stake - holding idea espoused by Will Hutton among others, had already entered «New Labour» thinking.

Amidst this hullaballoo, the political class has conveniently turned a deaf ear to the calls by civil society groups to undertake critical electoral reforms such as decriminalising politics.

As a non-nihilist, do you think any constructive concession could be made on electoral reform to seal this deal?

The Electoral Commission has given approval for the 2016 Presidential and Parliamentary elections to be held on November 7 as part of proposals for electoral reforms.

Blair's project is to dismantle the Labour Party as a party based on the unions, to destroy the elements of democracy which exist within the party and to transform the British political party system, through electoral reform, to make possible a long - term governmental alliance with the Liberal Democrats and, if possible, the Heseltine - Clarke wing of the Tory Party.

For the interest of readers who feel they want to catch up on the complexities of electoral reform options, this was the report of the «Independent Commission on the Voting System» — the so - called Jenkins Commission — as published in 1998: http://www.archive.official-documents.co.uk/document/cm40/4090/contents.htm

I write as a supporter of electoral reform who can see plenty of merit in coalition governments.

The party is in favour of reform of traditional British institutions such as the Church of England, a change in the electoral system from first - past - the - post to proportional representation, and drug decriminalisation.

That said, if the Tories manage to get an actual majority, go about their own electoral «reform» and keep themselves in power for a while without going anywhere near PR, I suspect Nick Clegg will go down as the worst player of a good electoral hand in history.

Labour is split down the middle on electoral reform, unlike the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats who are overwhelmingly united as parties on separate sides of the argument.

But, as Fraser shows, the passing of the Great Reform Bill was not just about dry electoral detail, but set against a background of widespread violence and fear of revolution, as was seen in France in 1830.

It seems to me, as an American observer of your election, that the cry for PR as electoral reform on behalf of the Lib Dems is nothing but naked self interest from these self described idealists.

Tory voters cited «time for a change», the economy and Gordon Brown as their reasons, while Lib Dems also cited electoral reform.

Unfortunately, Gordon Brown's miserable announcement on electoral reform (a referendum on the non-proportional AV system, after the next election, which presumably will be canned as soon as the Tories take office) had served to puncture everyone's enthusiasm, and apparently fill the room with a mixture of disappointment and fury.

He said electoral reform and the appointment of Prof. Attahiru Jega as Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) chairman restored his confidence in politics after previous umpires «disappointed» him.

This was a huge boost to our campaign as it was the first time that None of the Above had ever been acknowledged and officially endorsed as a possible electoral reform in and of itself.

As he reflects on the series of helpful resignations, Mr Prescott will no doubt hope that Mr Ashdown's departure will serve as a blow to the introduction of electoral reform, something he strongly opposeAs he reflects on the series of helpful resignations, Mr Prescott will no doubt hope that Mr Ashdown's departure will serve as a blow to the introduction of electoral reform, something he strongly opposeas a blow to the introduction of electoral reform, something he strongly opposes.