Here’s a new toy for Friday. The TUC has been working on electoral reform issues again, after a break of 50 years. A motion at Congress this year called for the TUC to restart debate in the movement on a fairer voting system for UK elections.
There’s a new ToUChstone report out today on the background to the issue of electoral reform, and a roundup of the options on the table and the impact each might have (you can download it here), and you can also take a practical walkthrough yourself online with the electoral reform test.Â
Answer a bunch of yes/no questions about how you’d want politics in the UK to operate and it will tell you the systems closest to your ideal. I’d be an AV+ (AMS) supporter, though no change there since I last studied electoral reform in my politics A levels 20 years back.
If you don’t know your AMS from your elbow, give it a spin at the ToUChstone blog.
Looks like I’m STV or AV+.
Whichever is more likely to keep the Tories out would be my preference.