After the initial flurry of announcements for this, the campaign is starting to take shape though some of the stuff on their Facebook page is very unfocussed. They do seem to be getting moving though with a series of public meetings in October. The London one is on the 17th.
They are slowly getting a proper web site up now
Democracy 2015
A lot of what Andreas Whittam-Smith wrote has a lot to recommend it. However, I am not entirely convinced about the idea of having MPs sit for one term only. Some very worthwhile policies that a strong independent contingent of MPs could help to develop would be very long term goals and the risk is that it would take more than one parliamentary term to get through.
Still, it is good to see a major newspaper take an interest in revitalising political life.
We shall see what the meeting is like anyway.
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