Senator Andrew Bartlett
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
 
Electoral Reform in the UK?

I wrote here about the travesty of democracy shown with the recent UK election, a view that was picked up in a blog by Peter Black, a Liberal Democrat Member of the Welsh Assembly.

I'm pleased to see a report in today's Independent, which says that "a national campaign for voting reform is to kick off" in the UK. Here's hoping it will lead to meaningful change.

According to the report, the Prime Minister's ability to hold power with the support of just a fifth of the British adult population is the lowest figure since the Great Reform Act of 1832, which just shows that my talk of Britain having a 19th Century voting system was not too far off the mark.

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