Category Archives: Parliament

Election Reform

The UK General Election Voting System — Time for Reform?

The disproportional relationship between the national share of votes and the number of seats won in the House of Commons has again come to the fore in the wake of the 2024 UK General Election. Is it time for our First Past the Post (FPTP) voting system to be replaced?

The Dissolution Of Parliament

I would prefer a written constitution for Britain which clearly identifies *the people* as the source of the state’s power – not Westminster, and not an even more remote and unaccountable monarch. Let the monarch remain, but let the source of power be the people and be written in the constitution as such, and let future such issues be resolved on the basis that the people are sovereign.