Electoral reform

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Tarquin Farquhar replied

29 September 2009, 17:39
Originally posted by bogeyman View Post

I think what they meant by 'Electoral Reform' was the massive gerrymandering effort they made in redrawing constituency boundaries to favour Labour even more.

The Conservatives will do it too. If you support one party or the other, you will say that one is gerrymandering and the other is adjusting for greater fairness; one is reforming the voting system to avoid a wipeout, the other is refusing needed reform because they like having a landslide.

I say a plague on both your houses.

Or does that make me guilty of inciting biological warfare against the powers that be? Hang on, there's a knock at the d........
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bogeyman replied

29 September 2009, 17:05
I think what they meant by 'Electoral Reform' was the massive gerrymandering effort they made in redrawing constituency boundaries to favour Labour even more.
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Platypus replied

29 September 2009, 17:04
Oh yeah, weren't we promised a referendum on the Lisbon treaty too?
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Tarquin Farquhar started a topic Electoral reform

29 September 2009, 17:01
Electoral reform

Didn't Labour promise it in 1997? A landslide or two and it didn't seem to be needed any more. Now that the party is facing doooom, it is a must to bring in electoral reform again.

Not just as a policy, but as a referendum question: so that the next government will not just ignore it. As I am sure they will want to, having won a landslide.

A plague on both your houses!
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