Sentences with phrase «more of electoral reform»

Labour will lose the next election and we will hear nothing more of electoral reform.

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OTTAWA — Nine million votes were wasted in the 2015 election under Canada's winner - take - all electoral system — that's more than the populations of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the Atlantic provinces combined, according to a new electoral reform primer outlining why the principle of proportionality must underpin the government's promise to bring in voting reform by the next federal election.

Conservatives say the dramatic shakeup of Britain's electoral map, which could hand the party around a dozen more seats at the general election, was a quid pro quo for the electoral reform referendum, which took place in May 2011.

Without other reforms AV will be no more than a form of palliative care for our electoral system.

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.

So having wiped out a massive part of the support for electoral reform — Clegg has left those who want reform for more high - minded reasons (which is a small constituent remember, most support the system that suits their narrow party interest) with a mountain to climb to rebuild widespread support.

The party lost some 700 councillors, and, more cruelly still, a once - in - a-generation chance of electoral reform at Westminster with the rejection of the AV referendum.

Clegg also won the promise of a referendum on electoral reform, an attempt at Lords reform and the more nebulous hope of creating a new politics.

It's also clear that the Government sees Lords reform as more than a technical problem, and the Commission's task as more expansive, for example, than that of Lord Jenkins's commission on electoral reform.

I would campaign for a red - yellow deal including electoral reform and an agreed manifesto, were it possible, both now and (perhaps more realistically) in the event of a hung parliament, and for Labour to have a manifesto which did not contain coalition red lines for the LibDems, as that would.

The parties will bring forward a Referendum Bill on electoral reform, which includes provision for the introduction of the Alternative Vote in the event of a positive result in the referendum, as well as for the creation of fewer and more equal sized constituencies.

In the meantime if the election arithmetic means that Labour and the Lib Dems together have a majority of votes and more than 325 MPs, Brown may try to secure a deal with Nick Clegg — who would be expected to demand Brown's resignation and full electoral reform.

A coalition of electoral reform activists were joined by Democratic state lawmakers during their annual pilgrimage to the New York State Capitol Tuesday to call for legislation that would remove barriers to the ballot and ensure that eligible New Yorkers are provided more opportunity to vote.

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«We will bring forward a Referendum Bill on electoral reform, which includes provision for the introduction of the Alternative Vote in the event of a positive result in the referendum, as well as for the creation of fewer and more equal sized constituencies.

Most of the coverage has focused on his plans for a referendum to reform the electoral system, but more radically he also announced his intention for the UK to have a written constitution by the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta in 2015.

The Liberal Democrats and Labour should, of course, have explored much earlier and more explicitly how they might co-operate to reform the electoral system.

If this campaign is not to become the most depressing in modern times the central issues, apart from sovereign debt, should be these: urgent reform of the City; the need to build a more balanced economy; youth unemployment; poverty in an era of spending cuts and pay freezes; electoral reform and a new constitutional settlement; the European Union and Britain's place within it; withdrawal from Afghanistan and a multilateral foreign policy.

But he has not tackled many of the more urgent questions and issues (such as electoral reform).

The Chairman said, «It is important that the budget of INEC be made to show more widespread public accountability and transparency of the Commission — which is a significant reform in itself - with a multiplier effect on electoral reform.»

[1] Among the changes most likely are a reduction of the voting age from 21 to 18, a more proportional electoral system, reforms to the oversight of elections and an invitation for Lebanese voters from abroad to register in the embassies, although there is no clear promise of them being able to vote from abroad.

They list the pupil premium for children from poorer families, income tax breaks for those on low incomes, the scrapping of identity cards, progress on civil liberties, the referendum on electoral reform and more.

«I believe Labour needs to work out how to build an economy that generates a much greater degree of prosperity, is much more successful at tackling inequality and poverty, and which is radical in pursuing more democratic and inclusive political chance, such as electoral reform.

The effect of electoral reform and a more proportional system, would be to create a different kind of parliament in a post expenses world, she claimed.

Nor are Labour exempt from cynicism as they failed to implement any concrete electoral reforms to the way MPs are elected to the House of Commons whilst in power from 1997 to 2010 but now their leader wishes to be seen as the reformer though he is still so partisan that he refuses to be seen in the company of the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, I personally assume therefore this is more about driving a wedge into the coalition, opposing David Cameron and general point scoring than a real desire for electoral reform for Ed Miliband.