Our present system of voting makes it difficult to oust the party in government, because that objective is coloured by where to place your vote. If you place it with any party other than the main opposition party, there is a danger that it will not be effective.
I propose a system that would address this problem.
Each person has two votes
The first is a direct vote to say if you wish the present party to remain in power or not. A straight yes or no.
This is counted as a total, nothing to do with the local candidate, and thus voters in constituencies where there is a big majority will not feel that their vote is wasted.
The second vote is for your favoured candidate.
Scenario 1
If you vote to oust the present government you can then proceed to vote for your chosen candidate, safe in the knowledge that the vote will not be wasted.
The new government would be made up of MP's from all the other parties, and government posts allotted in a proportional way.
Scenario 2
If you voted to keep the government you would then vote for your candidate in the normal way.
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I would prefer a single vote, toweards aproportional chamber. Our second chamber would then be made up of local represntatives in one of three ways:
i) Using the current consinutency system.
ii) Candidates nominated by local councils.
iii) Local councils would themselves consider national policy.
If we were to have two votes I would like one to be a standard proportional vote and the other to accept or reject a joint manifesto published by a minimum of three parties compromising at least fifty percent of the vote. The joint manifesto would contain all proposals that would be implemented regardless of who wins.
I would actually like to do away with elections, just register my vote and change it as and when I choose!
Yes there are many ways to go. I've tried to keep it simple in that people like their vote to count, and this way does it simply, and without the stasis that prportional voting tends to create
Stasis is good, the flood of badly thought out legislation that is rushed through Parliament should be avoided.
Sending legislation to local councils would give it a nice slow pace. Plenty of opportunity for us to pop down and offer our own opinion.
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