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« A Historic Meeting | Main | Iran blog launch » Storm for ReformStorm for Reform Three things I forgot to add early this morning when I wrote about yesterday's potentially historic meeting. Action starts with the vigil at Downing Street when the new Parliament opens on the 17th. Its organisers have already decided it will continue to gather strength under the stirring banner, 'Storm for Reform'. Second, speaking of Conservatives waking up to the fact that modernisation can only mean they will never again govern in the old way (and if anyone has shown them that they shouldn't do so it is the present Prime Minister). Ferdinand Mount came out for voting reform in the Daily Telegraph. Not strictly a Tory - he did not vote that way in 2001 - he nonetheless wrote Margaret Thatcher's election Manifesto in 1983 and is, in a traditional sense, that difficult thing, a conservative thinker. Let's hope he is influential. Third, and as important as any of the above, the Independent has come out with a 'Campaign for Democracy' after its readers responded, or should I say 'stormed', it with letters, emails and messages to support its front page exposure of the electoral system. The British media monopoly that marginalised calls for a fair voting system may have been broken at last. May 12, 2005 in Blair's Bust - UK election | Permalink TrackBackTrackBack URL for this entry: Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Storm for Reform: I hope this hops across the Atlantic and infects Canada. We already have an active grassroots fringe pishing for electoral reform - Fair Vote Canada - but it has yet to catch the imagination of a broader public. However the shambles of our current national government, which BBC News has done a fine job of reporting, may inspire a more fervant uptake of the campaign. Arguably representative democracy whithers if it is not enlivened with a commensurate amount of participatory democracy and 60% turnouts producing with minority winners or unstable parliaments does not, I think, encourage the abstaining 40%. Posted by: Edward Nixon | 14 May 2005 04:50:55 Posted by: account | 22 Apr 2007 12:29:50 Post a comment |
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