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Never mind about the planet, the Middle East the Mexican Wall, sexism, racism, etc - all about the money.

Ignorance and disaffection is a lethal combination, so I think the more people feel included in political decision making the more interest they'll take, the more critical they'll become of lazy politicians and the healthier our society will be. You only have to look across the pond to see...

You can have different electoral systems and still be a democracy. For me I think our systems turn off too large a proportion of the electorate and that is not healthy for society. Despite being a rare and pivotal event, 13 million people chose not to vote in the EU Referendum. That is...

I think the disenfranchisement caused by FPTP is they key here. I'm 50, I've been voting for 30 + years and such is the Tory stranglehold in the parts of West Sussex where I've lived that I don't think I've EVER voted for a candidate who has ended up in power, be it District, County Council or...

The won by a landslide, the country needed a change, he positioned himself in the centre to make his appeal as broad as possible and in his first 2 terms we outperformed USA, Germany and France and rode the internet wave. Meanwhile the Tories were in disarray and finding themselves again after...

I remember this debate from the 1980s. As a Lib Dem voter I have always been in support of PR. I think the coalition government 2010-15 showed that the public don't get it - which is why the Lib Dems were wrongly blamed for all of the ills of the government and decimated as a party. I don't...