Tag: Gaby Hinsliff

Adopting Bruce Grocott’s bill now before parliament would abolish them simply and swiftly. Readers might ask why the Electoral Reform Society, formed to campaign for a change to more proportional voting systems, is denigrating the current Lords and demanding an elected alternative. The answer is simple. By common consent an elected Lords would not be chosen by the same first-past-the-post system as the Commons. Indeed, if the Lords were elected more proportionately, it would arguably have more legitimacy than the Commons, forcing the Commons to go over to a more proportional system. Like Hughes I would welcome such a system. However, as democrats we have to remember that the 2011 referendum went against such a change. David Lipsey Labour, House of Lords • Parliament can’t afford to be left behind, affirmed Gaby Hinsliff (Our politics has lost touch with the way we live, 23 June). Just as millennials do their politics differently so too, I suggest, do those of us who have experienced politics over a much longer period. Our electoral system no longer reflects the will of the people, but rather entrenches a two-party system.