My 20 years of campaigning for votes at 16This is a guest post from Kelly Harris, a qualified youth worker who has worked with children and young people for 20 years across Wales. I still find it hard to believe that it has been...Posted 26 Apr 2021
Who can I vote for? How do I vote? What everyone needs to know for the May electionsMay sees elections for around 5,000 seats in England, votes for the Mayor of London and London Assembly, the Senedd (Welsh Parliament), the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood), and Police and Crime Commissioner elections. Holyrood and the...Posted 23 Apr 2021
The First Past the Post Super League: if it matters in football, it must in politics tooOn Sunday night, the owners of 12 elite European football clubs – the big 6 in England, plus 3 top teams from each Italy and Spain – announced the creation of a new tournament, the...Posted 22 Apr 2021
How May’s elections for the Scottish Parliament will workAmong the wave of elections that will be held on 6 May, voters across Scotland will be called to elect 129 members of the devolved Scottish Parliament for the sixth time in its history. The...Posted 19 Apr 2021
Greensill 2.0: Is the next lobbying scandal brewing in the House of Lords?Greensill 2.0: Is the next lobbying scandal brewing in the House of Lords?Posted 16 Apr 2021
ERS in the Press: March 2021The warping effects of First Past the Post were in the news again this month, with the Times’ Patrick Maguire penning a piece on the ‘one-party fiefdoms’ that plague our politics. Darren Hughes, responded with...Posted 15 Apr 2021
Welsh democracy is under threat, we need more members of the Senedd now more than everJust a few short weeks out from the Senedd elections and it’s clear that the election campaign has now hit full swing. With polls suggesting some uncertainty parties are already setting out their stalls on...Posted 09 Apr 2021
Only real local democracy can rebuild our communitiesThe last twelve months have changed the way many of us think about our everyday lives. The lockdowns necessitated by the pandemic have made the world feel smaller and turned many people’s minds to a...Posted 09 Apr 2021
It’s time for candidates to ‘play fair’ and back overhaul of UK’s outdated election rulesThe Fair Play Pledge, a major initiative involving several democratic organisations, was formally launched this Wednesday to highlight the need for open and transparent campaigning for the May election period. Next month thousands of candidates...Posted 09 Apr 2021
England is blighted by local one party statesEngland is blighted by local one-party states: areas where it too often feels like only one party can win, where parties control nearly all the seats – and where scrutiny is a shadow of what...Posted 01 Apr 2021