Because then the political parties can't parachute inexperienced candidates into safe seats so that:
The new candidate gets elected in a safe seat and learns the ropes of political life as an MP.
More experienced candidates can be deployed to marginal constituencies to contest the seat.
Yeah she's one for the pub quiz.
About the only use she is, aside from discrediting any policy suggestions that come out of the Institute for Economic Affairs (i.e. the Tuffton Street Twats).
IMO it should be further than that.
Open source software is, more often than not, used as digital infrastructure.
Governments around the world should absolutely be investing in open source software and actively contributing to it.
And that folks is how you keep the Tories in power.
Full Sugar Tory or Diet Tory.
One is definitely worse for your health.
Vote tactically and then harass the shit out of your MP to implement voting reform. Organise marches for voter reform.
That's the only way, short of armed revolution, you'll get any policies other than Blairite or Thatcherism into parliament.
Short answer: policies over parties and making politics more accessible to the public who wish to be fairly represented.
Weaken the power of all political parties. Policy groups and think tanks are allowed to form around single policies but not be a political group represented on the ballot box.
All policy groups get a fixed campaigning budget from the government they can not exceed. Benefits in kind are also counted to discourage corruption. All contributions are to be declared publicly and the named private individuals must be the sole source of the capital contribution.
MPs wishing to stand for election must declare the specific policies they support. They get a single A3 poster to be displayed in the polling station with the policies they support on it.
Polcies, must be stated in SMART format as any sensible manager would set for objectives: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound. Each element of the SMART layout may not exceed 2 side of A4, meaning a maximum of 10 pages for each policy.
Replace First Past The Post with Marked Preference.
Prime Minister is directly elected by the public from the pool of elected MPs through Marked Preference.
Create Citizen assemblies to tackle keystone reforms as they have been shown to have had great success in Ireland and other countries. Citizen assembly budgets are double that of private policy groups to keep the balance of money in politics firmly in favour of the majority not the few.
Slowly replace the House of Lords with the House of Assemblies. Those that have previously served in Citizen Assemblies are chosen at random to serve in the new House of Assemblies. The commissions works currently undertaken by the House of Lords, i.e. most of the work they do outside of scrutinising policy proposals, to be given to a technocratic jury of experts in their respective fields.
The creation of a federated civic social network to act as an online public space and centre for all e-government services (local, regional, and national).
And finally, some other reforms that also affect politics:
You don't get punished for not doing your job as an MP. Just ask John Stonehouse.
It should be. The UK political system needs urgent and humongous reform before further trust in the democratic institutions withers away.
I take it you're the one true Scotsman?
And that's how you get another 10 years of Tories or a Tory-Reform coalition government.
And the politicians protecting them.
Oh fuck off, people will still come to walk even if there's pylons. Theres pylons over a walking route I take and I see loads of people there. Plus the newer design looks a lot better than the older ones.