Tag: Democracy
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Why Trade Unions Need to Make Votes Matter
The trade union case for Proportional Representation.
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Labour4PR: Invite a speaker and call for electoral reform!
It’s a new year, and we are renewing our efforts for Labour to adopt Proportional Representation as party policy. You can see my case for doing so, in LabourList, here. So far, an unprecedented fifty-three (53) Constituency Labour Parties have passed motions calling on Labour to support PR for Westminster. Make Votes Matter has now added…
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Oxford Climate Review: Out of Proportion
How electoral systems can transform climate policy
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Why our media is wrong to say proportional representation helps the extreme right
The UK media likes to blame far right gains elsewhere – as in Sweden’s recent election – on PR. In fact the evidence shows disproportional voting systems give more power to the extreme right. This was originally posted as an article for OpenDemocracy: Why our media is wrong to say proportional representation helps the extreme right Reading the…
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The case for mandatory reselection
This was originally posted as an article for the Oxford University Labour Club blog: The Case for Mandatory Reselection As the 2018 Labour Conference approaches, the debate around mandatory reselection is intensifying. For some MPs and their supporters, mandatory reselection is simply a tool for the left to purge the ‘moderates’ from the Party. This may…
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Why is the Labour Party machine ignoring members on voting reform?
My piece for LabourList on how Labour’s internal policy makers are dragging their heels on PR: Why is the Labour Party machine ignoring members on voting reform?
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Less Than a Third of Adults Believe Britain’s Democracy is Worth Celebrating
This was originally posted as a HuffPost article: Less Than a Third of Adults Believe Britain’s Democracy is Worth Celebrating Monday 2 July marked the beginning of the Government’s ‘National Democracy Week’, a week long celebration of British democracy which coincided with the 90th anniversary of equal voting rights for women. However, not everyone is in…
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Make Votes Matter Polling, 8th-11th June 2018
A new poll by ICM, on behalf of Make Votes Matter, shows overwhelming support for PR. Tables here: ICM-Omnibus-National-Democracy-Week Q1. The government has recently announced plans for ‘National Democracy Week’, a week-long celebration of British democracy. Do you think British democracy is something worth celebrating at the moment? Yes – 32% No – 43% Don’t know –…
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Why voter ID checks are a threat to British democracy
My piece for IndyVoices on the Voter ID trials in May’s local elections: Why voter ID checks are a threat to British democracy “To improve democracy, we should constantly seek to widen participation and engage people, not find an excuse to prevent them from voting”
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First Past The Post Is An Open Invitation To Malicious Online Interference
This was originally posted as a HuffPost article: First Past The Post Is An Open Invitation To Malicious Online Interference Data mining, dark ads, fake news, Russian bots… our voting system is acutely vulnerable to shady influences because of its fixation on marginal constituencies. We’re hearing a lot these days about sinister forces attempting to hijack…
Owen Winter 