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🔴 Just a Fraction of Voters Who Lack Photo ID Apply for ‘Free’ Identification – In Warning Sign for Mayoral Elections
Low take-up of the Government’s Voter Authority Certificate poses a risk to voters in May’s local elections – Josiah Mortimer reports
bylinetimes.com/2024/04/24/jus…
Pleased to share this article from Centenary Action steering group member Dr Sarabajaya Kumar on the need for action to enable increased disabled representation.
Lively exchange at the International Centre for Sustainability International Centre for Sustainability with @pravarpetkar and Peter Emerson of de Borda Institute about the failings of voting systems in the United Kingdom and India.
And broad agreement that democracy in both countries is under some pressure.
MP Debbie Abrahams MP spoke on “Citizens’ Assemblies”today. Here is her excellent Speech [begins 11:00am ],the response shows how much we still have to do if citizens are to regain trust in politics,and Govt&MP’s are to be meaningful partners with them
parliamentlive.tv/Search?Keyword…
Nice to see our report for Compass and Unlock Democracy cited in this great The Guardian editorial. Punchline:
“These are big changes, but local government is in big trouble”. Randeep Ramesh Arianna Giovannini theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Local government needs a stabler funding model as well as more revenue raising powers.
But no one devolution model can work everywhere – we need true localism.
Our new report with Compass written by Arianna Giovannini & Jonathan Davies now on Mastodon, Threads and BSky! covered in LGC.
lgcplus.com/politics/devol…