LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Reviving the election lottery

Simon Parker argues for the random selection of councillors and peers from the citizenry as a means of reducing the grip of vested interests and to force politicians to justify their plans in detail to thier peers.

I keep hearing that this is the most unpredictable election in British history. But the outcome is not really all that hard to guess. Either David Cameron or Ed Miliband will be Prime Minister and their parties will continue to dominate Parliament.

The election remains a choice between two white, Oxbridge-educated men who have spent their lives within the Westminster bubble. Shouldn't there be more to politics than this?

Simon Parker

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