'In the light of the election results - we want everyone to support a petiton to ensure that we get a referendum on PR as part of any coalition. and we support any of the online campaigns to rpessdure all parties and the public to ensure that there is a referendum on full blow PR as part of a democtrativc renewal - including the direct election of the second chamber while abolishing the hereditory House Of lords - and that none of the discredited corrupt MPs who were caught out fiddling and flipping be given any peerages or elevation to the House of Lords.
We want to keep track both of the corrupt resignees and would welcome any updates / feedback and also of the progress of the hundreds of MPs who were re- elected despite their clear corruption and self interested manipulation of the system for personal gain - particularly the Tories ,as many of the moats and duck houses and other paraphinalia of the rich continuing their 'rightful' rip off of us the taxpayers, have been unfortunately re- elected.
We want to keep track both of the corrupt resignees and would welcome any updates / feedback and also of the progress of the hundreds of MPs who were re- elected despite their clear corruption and self interested manipulation of the system for personal gain - particularly the Tories ,as many of the moats and duck houses and other paraphinalia of the rich continuing their 'rightful' rip off of us the taxpayers, have been unfortunately re- elected.
It was a shame that the Independents did nopt do as well as we hoped but at least there was 1 green MP elected and the nationalists who seem to be committed to greater democracy and autonomy from a progressive perspective are still able to make some input into the process of renewal.
Besides the commitment to PR and a democtraitc renewal we hope that who ever comes inro power starts addressing the issues of the banks, of controlling and regulating and taxing the speculators, the banks and their bonuses, separating the banks from the speculators, introducing taxes on market and currency transactions, and starting to put into place all those controla that were agreed as key over a year ago. if not the speculation and financial crisis will continue to grow as in part a result of our politicans still not taxing, regulating and standing up to the globalised power of the markets who as we speak are using our bail out money to brutally attack ordinary people and governments economies solely to ensure that the billionaires and global capital become even more grotesquesly rich on the backs of a global attack on ordinary people's lives and on public services across the globe.
None of the parties appear ready to take on the speculators, even the EU are calling for more radical measures than our parties but at least Cable is trying to address these isssues - so whatever the coaltion lets hear it for Cable as Chancellor.
The shambles at some polling stations was appalling. The very concept of people who had been queuing to vote being unable to do so because of the incompetence of the arrangements made by returning officers is incredible. As usual in this country the guilty will get away scot free and apparently without even apologising to the voters they disenfranchised. Given the importance of voting and that it is a legal requirement to be on the register I simply don’t understand how any polling station could have insufficient ballot papers or unless everyone turned up at 9.45pm how there could be insufficient booths or polling station staff.
ReplyDeleteThe shambles at some polling stations was appalling. The very concept of people who had been queuing to vote being unable to do so because of the incompetence of the arrangements made by returning officers is incredible. As usual in this country the guilty will get away scot free and apparently without even apologising to the voters they disenfranchised. Given the importance of voting and that it is a legal requirement to be on the register I simply don’t understand how any polling station could have insufficient ballot papers or unless everyone turned up at 9.45pm how there could be insufficient booths or polling station staff.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, the Tories are back and I don’t think any coalition without them is viable. They spent Ashcroft’s money well over the past few years. Until there is a proper limit on how much can be spent nationally I do not see how we can ever get a fair contest in this country. I am in favour of PR but I do have some problems with it. I think that there needs to be a facility by which a truly independent candidate can win an individual seat and also a method of avoiding the party hierarchies from deciding which individuals from their teams of candidates actually get those seats that the party has won. I think that the Tory idea of uniform size seats but no PR is just a fig leaf and don’t much like the single alternative vote favoured by Brown, which will just return the “least worse party” in each constituency. Perhaps it should be a system where those with the greatest percentage of votes in their constituencies get elected until they run out of the percentage of votes that the party has won.
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