Straw’s memory lapse means little real choice.

Published: Wednesday, February 7th 2007

The Society has reiterated its opposition to an electoral system that allows party hierarchies undue influence on who is elected and who is not. “Jack Straw talks of using a ‘partially open list system’”, said the Chief Exec of the Society. “As he will know from work he commissioned in 1998 when Home Secretary, in the European countries that use this type of system, voter choice is largely an illusion – what party managers want they generally get.”

Half Measures for the Second Chamber

Published: Tuesday, February 6th 2007

The Electoral Reform Society has reacted with disappointment to today’s publication of the White Paper on Lords Reform. The Society has charged the government of taking half measures in its task of creating a genuinely accountable second chamber.
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