Government about manifesto

[Floppy]

Thanks for starting this conversation!

From my point of view, I see a lot of what's in the manifesto as being steps on a journey. There are some immediate fixes to the current system, some mid-term but more major changes, and then the end goal. For instance, based on what's currently in:

Immediate: Change to 3-member STV
Medium: Replace House of Lords with citizen panels, and have a written constitution
Long-term: Move to direct democracy where we don't need representatives in the same way we do now.

Does that make sense? Certainly the more major changes would involve referenda, and a great deal of debate. Perhaps we need to make that more explicit.

I'm definitely fine with being radical, that's basically the entire point :)

[anilliams]

This is an issue I'm interested in so I'm going to do a bit of research get back to it. I may open another issue depending on how much I find.

[yellowgopher]

I am liking the idea of completely seperating the executive from the legislature here - it might even allow for a less party focused legislature... It has also crossed my mind that we have moved into a period of poor legislation (as referenced in a recent interview with former Cabinet Secretary Gus O'Donnell) and I wonder, with the crossover here (where the executive holds large sway over the legislature) is partly to blame. I think it is fair to mention that the divorcing of the judiciary from the process of legislation may also have had a part to play - the Supreme Court judges of course no longer sit in the House of Lords and so do not contribute to law making - they have been isolated from government to a certain extent. I guess, the question is, how do we do it...?

[Floppy]

We passed a change suggested a separation of executive and legislature recently: #313

[yellowgopher]

We did! And it balances out the bias towards the executive as well.