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@philipjohn edited manifesto/democracy.md - over 9 years ago

Allow for full and proper recall of MPs: any e-petition to recall their MP supported by 20% of all registered constituency electors should trigger a local referendum (yes/no majority vote required) as to whether to hold a fresh byelection.

Elected House of Lords

Lords Reform

Create an elected Upper House of Parliament for single 15 year terms, with the explicit purpose of revising and improving (not vetoing) legislation initiated by HM Government in the House of Commons.

Replace the House of Lords with a second chamber made up of randomly-selected citizens tasked with reviewing and amending legislation created by the House of Commons.

Abolish automatic appointment of bishops to the House of Lords.

Citizens are selected from the electoral roll, serve a single 5-year term, and one fifth of the chamber is changed each year. Leave from work is legally protected, and help back to work included in the cost.

Party Funding

@philipjohn edited manifesto/democracy.md - over 9 years ago

Allow for full and proper recall of MPs: any e-petition to recall their MP supported by 20% of all registered constituency electors should trigger a local referendum (yes/no majority vote required) as to whether to hold a fresh byelection.

Elected House of Lords

Lords Reform

Create an elected Upper House of Parliament for single 15 year terms, with the explicit purpose of revising and improving (not vetoing) legislation initiated by HM Government in the House of Commons.

Replace the House of Lords with a second chamber made up of randomly-selected citizens tasked with reviewing and amending legislation created by the House of Commons.

Abolish automatic appointment of bishops to the House of Lords.

Citizens are selected from the electoral roll and serve a single fixed-length term. A subset of the chamber is changed each year. Leave from work is legally protected, and help back to work included in the cost.

Party Funding

@philipjohn edited manifesto/democracy.md - over 9 years ago

Allow for full and proper recall of MPs: any e-petition to recall their MP supported by 20% of all registered constituency electors should trigger a local referendum (yes/no majority vote required) as to whether to hold a fresh byelection.

Elected House of Lords

Lords Reform

Create an elected Upper House of Parliament for single 15 year terms, with the explicit purpose of revising and improving (not vetoing) legislation initiated by HM Government in the House of Commons.

Replace the House of Lords with a second chamber made up of randomly-selected citizens tasked with reviewing and amending legislation created by the House of Commons.

Abolish automatic appointment of bishops to the House of Lords.

Citizens are selected from the electoral roll and serve a single fixed-length term. A subset of the chamber is changed each year. Leave from work is legally protected, and help back to work included in the cost.

Party Funding

@philipjohn edited manifesto/todo.md - over 9 years ago

title: To Do layout: page

published: true

There are plenty of areas where we don't yet have anything in the manifesto. If you're looking to contribute but are unsure where to start, why not have a look at one of these areas?;

  • Israel-Palestine conflict
  • Scottish independence/the West Lothian question (related discussion)
  • Leveson and media plurality
  • Arts funding
  • House building
  • Local Government (seems light)

Think there's other things we're missing but don't have a proposal of your own? Edit this page to add them!

@philipjohn edited contributing.md - over 9 years ago

If you're more familiar with GitHub, you can of course use the standard fork / pull request model. The repository is openpolitics/manifesto.

Want to contribute but aren't sure what you can start with? Check out the to-do list.

The Rules

  • Anything can be changed.
@philipjohn edited manifesto/democracy.md - over 9 years ago

Allow for full and proper recall of MPs: any e-petition to recall their MP supported by 20% of all registered constituency electors should trigger a local referendum (yes/no majority vote required) as to whether to hold a fresh byelection.

Elected House of Lords

Lords Reform

Create an elected Upper House of Parliament for single 15 year terms, with the explicit purpose of revising and improving (not vetoing) legislation initiated by HM Government in the House of Commons.

Replace the House of Lords with a second chamber made up of randomly-selected citizens tasked with reviewing and amending legislation created by the House of Commons.

Abolish automatic appointment of bishops to the House of Lords.

Citizens are selected from the electoral roll and serve a single fixed-length term. A subset of the chamber is changed each year. Leave from work is legally protected, and help back to work included in the cost.

Party Funding

@philipjohn edited manifesto/todo.md - over 9 years ago

title: To Do layout: page

published: true

There are plenty of areas where we don't yet have anything in the manifesto. If you're looking to contribute but are unsure where to start, why not have a look at one of these areas?;

  • Israel-Palestine conflict
  • Scottish independence/the West Lothian question (related discussion)
  • Leveson and media plurality
  • Arts funding
  • House building
  • Local Government (seems light)

Think there's other things we're missing but don't have a proposal of your own? Edit this page to add them!

philipjohn

@philipjohn - over 9 years ago

Oh dear. I appear to have done something wrong :\ Help @Floppy !

I branched off gh-pages I'm sure, but I've somehow merged with another PR?

Floppy

@Floppy - over 9 years ago

No worries - I'll cherry-pick across and reset this one back.

Floppy

@Floppy - over 9 years ago

Ooh, I see, no. You've just branched off the lords-demarchy branch instead of gh-pages. Paul's comment above appears because it's a line comment instead of a issue comment. I should be able to cherry-pick...

Floppy

@Floppy - over 9 years ago

OK, I've done that. Will open a different PR.