Labour Mayors are right to criticise photo voter ID. It is costly, unnecessary, and discriminatory.

But is Labour committed to repealing the legislation if they form the next Government?

theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Time for an ethics commission with real teeth and tough enforcement powers!

bigissue.com/news/politics/…

🚨 TODAY is National Voter Registration Day 🚨

As it stands, 4 MILLION young people will be excluded from voting at the next election.

On this deadline day, don’t risk losing your voice. #GiveAnX about your future and #RegisterToVote : qrco.de/giveanx

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/…

For devolution to work, decision-making and revenue-raising powers have to be taken away from Whitehall and local people given a much larger role in setting their own priorities.

Read more here in ‘Power to the People’: compassonline.org.uk/wp-content/upl…

'Power to the People': our new report published with Compass and written by Arianna Giovannini & Jonathan Davies now on Mastodon, Threads and BSky! offers a timely challenge to Westminster:

If the parties believe in levelling up, will they act on its recommendations?

Read the report here ➡️ bit.ly/4aty0gb

We think that all political honours should go through the same independent assessment process that normal honours go through.

Sign the petition 👇

secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/141758/pe…

The Government announced a ‘surprise’ honours list last week.

But nothing about the contents of the list was a surprise.

Topping the list of donors was Mr Mansour, one of the Conservative Party’s largest donors.

This is what the honours system has become in Britain today.

Two very experienced campaigners are needed for the national campaign for #proportionalrepresentation

The campaign is backed by 12 organisations so far, including:

Open Britain
Unlock Democracy

The national campaign for #proportionalrepresentation is gearing up

12 organisations so far are signed up, including:

Compass
@ElectoralReform
LCER
Lib Dems for Electoral Reform 🔶️ #FBPPR
Make Votes Matter

We are looking to recruit two key people for the campaign: a convenor and a coordinator

“Parties relying on rich and questionable donors is one reason the public don’t trust MPs.”

Capping political donations - we suggest £5K - would be a sensible first step.
thetimes.co.uk/article/labour…

Want strong and stable government?

#ProportionalRepresentation is the way forward!

Labour is considering signing up to a cross-party pledge not to tolerate deepfakes that constitute electoral misinformation.

Shouldn't take too long.

Sign up without delay, and the other parties should follow suit.

theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Want a fast and straightforward way to stop super donors exerting huge political influence?

Our solution: cap individual and company donations at £5,000 per year.

theguardian.com/business/2024/…

Whoever wants to be the next European president will have to make sure ‘not a penny’ goes to Orbán as long as he continues to undermine democracy and the rule of law… and plays the puppet for autocrats like Trump, Putin and Xi.

Enough !

theguardian.com/us-news/2024/m…

Not a happy day in Vienna. The US Treasury warned Austria's Raiffeisen Bank International it risked 'being cut off from the US financial system' if it was helping to fund Russia's military. Apparently OTP Bank of Hungary is under similar risk euobserver.com/world/158200

Reform of the House of Lords is long overdue.

But pending the radical reform we want to see, there is something easy that any Prime Minister can do to make it more representative, just appoint women.

#InternationalWomensDay2024

theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

We won't have a strong democracy without equal gender representation in Parliament.

That is why we are proud to support 50:50 Parliament
and Centenary Action

#InternationalWomensDay

Supportive comments from Emily Thornberry for the #FOIA at the #OpenDemocracy FOI conference.

Less enthusiasm, however, for Labour to be transparent in the run up to the General Election on which businesses they are meeting and why?

If there is a precedent for the taxpayer funding the legal costs of a Minister who had wrongly accused someone of being a Hamas sympathiser, it is time to set an alternative precedent.

Why should the taxpayer pick up these costs?

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…