Is it Time for PR?: Lifting the Lid on Britain’s Pressure-Cooker Politics with Stuart Donald and Emma Harrison | ep. 143

About this episode

The episode discusses the need for proportional representation in Britain's political system and its implications for democracy and inequality.

One of Compass’ evergreen campaigns is that for proportional representation. Doing away with the archaic first-past-the-post voting system is something self-evident to the new politics we here at Compass are trying to build. Ensuring cross-party collaboration and the best of all progressive ideas will be key to a democratic system that works in the people’s best interest going forward. But there’s a darker side to FPTP too: how it contributes to inequality. This little-researched area of the ...

People in this episode

Host: Compass

Guests: Stuart Donald, Emma Harrison

Topics covered

• proportional representation
• politics
• inequality
• voting systems
• democracy
• cross-party collaboration

Keywords

• proportional representation
• first-past-the-post
• politics
• inequality
• democracy
• Compass

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Compass

Books & works: Is it Time for PR?

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