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Topic for June/July - Overhauling our Democratic System
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Given that the need to improve our democracy is topical after the Brexit fiasco, it seems like a good time for us to revisit the topic.
In particular how we would change the whole electoral and Parliamentary system.
Radio 4 is doing a series ‘Re-thinking Representation’, which can be listened to at any time at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0005f8w
Should you want to look back, we produced the following document on Government and Democracy in the 21st Century, with quite a few ideas that would help, but we need to extend that and try and come up with a top to bottom solution http://www.probably42.net/documents/2/55/government-and-democracy-in-the-21st-century
A number of suggested changes are also included in our Manifesto of Ideas. You can see the short summary document at http://www.probably42.net/documents/2/56/ideas-manifesto-short-summary
This post was edited by Tony Clack at June 10, 2019 2:23 PM BST -
The Output from this discussion is now available at:
http://www.probably42.net/documents/2/61/improving-our-democratic-system-output-from-pie-and-pint-meeting-29
It is closely related to a paper that has been developed on a new UK Voting System to overcome many of the problems of 'First Past the Post' and of 'Proportional Representation'. This is available at:
http://www.probably42.net/documents/2/60/proposal-for-a-new-uk-preference-voting-system