Sentences with phrase «pro-elected second chambers»

They will ceremonially welcome him into the second chamber as of parliament and he will make maiden a speech in the future.

Of course there is a measure of ideological hype in such statements, but one can not help but be impressed with, for instance, the proposal that there should be a second chamber of the UN's General Assembly — a People's Assembly.

The latter gave the Lib Dems a crucial role in the second chamber via proportional representation.

The House of Lords currently has 789 Members which makes it the largest second chamber in the world.

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.

Whether it's on the length of the terms, the system of election, the place of bishops in the second chamber or a myriad of other issues, the opposition will be able to offer the carrot of its support for a guillotine motion instantly ending the agony - if it gets its way.

But the case around «elective dictatorship» set out by Lord Halisham in 1976 is rather different if one introduces measures like devolution, an entrenched bill of rights, a legitimate second chamber with revising powers, stronger and legitimate local government.

Peers are to interact with the public through social media after a Twitter feed was set up for the second chamber.

The voting system for the second chamber was the last real stumbling block, and the coalition agreement settled that debate by deciding on proportional representation.

The election results of 2015 have once again made manifest the absurdity of the composition of our second chamber.

«But because we back a second chamber, we do find it sticks in the craw, as it were.

Campaigning is at the heart of what she wants to do, as the Green peer uses her position in the second chamber to launch coordinated political manoeuvres with Caroline Lucas, the party's sole MP in the House of Commons.

I will be leading calls to reform the second chamber from now on.

He's a longstanding opponent of an elected second chamber.

For a short while it looked as though the creation of a new second chamber, the senate, might derail the bill after a number of prominent senators pledged to veto the legislation.

(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).

I believe that they also show that a second chamber elected in the way described above can broadly be seen to exhibit each of the desirable properties enumerated above.

That is, if voters become more engaged with the second chamber and therefore turn out to vote for it in higher numbers, then it seems likely that the chamber will become more assertive in the face of the Commons.

I also allow for «positive» votes for the Commission list, which seems natural given the apparent importance people put on the presence of «experts» in the second chamber.

Of course, these advantages of having «expert» legislators in the second chamber could be achieved by simply having a fixed proportion — say 20 % — of members appointed.

Ministers are attempting to complete the reform of parliament's second chamber begun over 100 years ago.

Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg announced his party's intention to block boundary changes, thought to be worth around 20 MPs to the Tory party at the next election, as a direct response to the failure of his plans to make the Lords reform a mainly elected second chamber.

The Lib Dem deputy leader threatened «consequences» if Tory rebels do not fall into line over the proposals to make the Lords an 80 % elected second chamber.

It could represent a compromise between those wishing to create a strong democratic mandate for the second chamber, those wishing to ensure Commons supremacy, and those wishing to maintain a deliberative and «expert» - influenced revising and scrutinising legislative body.

[1] The manifesto text does say that reform of the second chamber and consideration of the role of English MPs is scrutinising English legislation are «part of the Constitutional Convention process» (my emphasis), implying that there might be other issues for the convention to consider.

Big change will continue to be debated — some hope a reformed second chamber would help to unite the increasingly fragmented UK.

My concern is that we've done the first part but not the second part, and therefore - you mentioned an elected second chamber for example: I couldn't agree more.

There are other reports — one that Brown may go for an elected second chamber.

Or else the second chamber would gain equal status, and we would have a situation in which the majority in one chamber would not necessarily match the majority in the other.

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

The manifesto text does say that reform of the second chamber and consideration of the role of English MPs is scrutinising English legislation are `

Just on constitutional reform, which continues to be a big interest for you: looking back at the sweep of New Labour in office under Blair and now Brown, hasn't it been a big failure really on what Roy Jenkins called «breaking the mould» issues: Lib - Labbery, elected second chamber - you must be disappointed with that record.

This catalogue of failure exposes the complexities of second chamber reform.

John Bercow says he would prefer an elected second chamber but does not believe «reform on any major scale» will happen soon

I think we need an elected second chamber, and we need to get there as fast as possible, and this recent kerfuffle just illustrates the reason for that.

Second chambers are common in large, complex political systems; but their central purpose — to challenge the government and elected first chamber — makes them controversial.

16:54 — Now addressing Tory rebels, Young says that the Conservatives have been committed to an elected second chamber since the late 1990s, and says words to that effect have been included in the last three Tory party manifestos.

Caroline Lucas has led the way on this; her amendment to the programme motion suggested an extra three days of scrutiny on the composition of the elected second chamber, the primacy of the Commons and methods of accountability.

In particular, it is suggested that the convention will consider (a) reform of the second chamber and (b) «how English MPs can have a greater role in the scrutiny of legislation that only affects England».

In 1969, for example, came one of the most serious attempts to reform parliament's second chamber.

If Mr Seymour really values the contribution of a strong second chamber, he must not yield to the notion that «expertise» should trump election and notional «independence» should necessarily be valued over real accountability.

[i] «The manifesto text does say that reform of the second chamber and consideration of the role of English MPs is scrutinising English legislation are «part of the Constitutional Convention process» (my emphasis), implying that there might be other issues for the convention to consider.

There are related questions about the second chamber of Parliament and the election itself is likely to raise again questions over the voting system.

Deputy PM's speech advocating a mainly elected second chamber jeered by Tories and Labour on eve of crucial vote

I think it's fair to conclude that the scepticism about meddling with the composition of the second chamber exhibited yesterday from the Tory backbenches is representative of widespread opposition within the parliamentary party.

The Labour Party used to believe that the second chamber should be abolished altogether.

Mayor of London pours scorn on coalition plans to replace House of Lords with elected second chamber

Clegg believes the referendum demand can be defeated by pointing out that all parties backed an elected second chamber in their manifesto, and few would like to set aside # 100m to fund such a referendum.

The collapse of coalition plans for an elected second chamber — with formal last rites likely to delivered next week by a rueful Nick Clegg — is triggering another bout of speculation about the survival of the coalition.

Gordon Brown should propose, in Labour's election manifesto, a referendum to introduce the Alternative Vote for Commons elections, alongside a second chamber which would be 80 per cent elected, by proportional representation.