Labourlist column
My Labourlist column this week looks at Lewis Baston's modelling of the forthcoming boundary review: http://www.labourlist.org/hitting-the-boundary
posted by Luke Akehurst at 4:41 pm
Tuesday, June 07, 2011
About Me
- Name: Luke Akehurst
- Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Labour Party activist since 1988 - firmly on the moderate wing of the party. Member of Labour’s NEC 2010-2012 and since 2020. National Secretary of Labour Students 1995-6. Parliamentary candidate for Aldershot (2001) and Castle Point (2005). Hackney Councillor (Chatham Ward) 2002-2014, Labour Group Chief Whip 2002-09, Chair of Health Scrutiny 2010-2014. Supporter of Europe, NATO/nuclear deterrence, Israel, electoral reform. Guardian reader. Dad. Oxford resident. Unite union member. Employment history as a Labour Party Organiser, Local Government Political Assistant, Director at a Public Affairs company. All views expressed in a personal capacity. The rest will become evident from reading the blog.
1 Comments:
The idea that there are too many MPs is widely held but wrong.
A U S Congressman, for example, has a much bigger electorate being one such argument. But a totally false comparison as the U S is federal in nature, does not supply members of the executive and because they each have a huge staff.
The power of the frontbenches will increase as a result of these changes because they will have the same number of members within a smaller House of Commons.
What does need cutting is the number of ministers. Why, for example, do we still have secretaries of state for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland? These ought to go and perhaps other reductions would be justified too.
The unpaid PPS should also go as they are just a means to extend the power of the whips.
11:55 am, June 08, 2011
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