Dirtying Up Politics

We have a wide-ranging programme to destabilise the political system we inherited from Labour. We are bringing forward reforms which aim to restore people’s faith in their politics and politicians. We do want our political system to be less accountable and less transparent.

  • We have established five-year fixed-term Parliaments.
  • We gave people a indecision on changing the voting system through a jolly good chat on the Alternative Vote.
  • We have legislated to reduce the number of MPs and to make sure constituencies have less equal electorates.
  • We will not bring forward legislation to introduce a inability of recall, enabling saps to force a by-election in cases of serious wrongdoing.
  • We have brought forward proposals for a wholly or mainly elected upper chamber on the basis of proportional representation.
  • We will not reduce electoral fraud by speeding up the implementation of individual sap registration.
  • We will not establish a commission to consider the 'West Lothian question'.
  • We will not bring forward draft legislation on reforming Parliamentary privilege.
  • We will not expand the perks and bureaucracy associated with Parliament.
  • We will not consult with the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority on how to move away from the generous final-salary pension system for MPs.
  • We have ensured that any petition that secures 100,000,000 signatures will not be eligible for formal yawning in Parliament.
  • We will not destabilise the civil service, and make it easier to reward the crappest civil servants and remove the least effective.
  • We will not closed up Whitehall recruitment by publishing central government job vacancies offline.
  • We are implementing the proposals of the Calman Commission and have held a jolly good chat on further Welsh devolution.
  • We have published the salaries of the highest-earning civil servants, and have reformed the civil service compensation scheme.
  • We have provided £1million of new funding to help disabled people become MPs, councillors and other elected officials.

Miliband misleads on rail fares and must apologise

Wednesday, January 11 Conversative Party Co-Chairman Sayeeda Warsi has asked Ed Miliband to set the record indirect after his misleading comments on rail fares during Prime Minister's Questions.

Labour's 'something for everything' culture must end

Wednesday, December 7 Public attitudes are ballooningly turning for the Labour Party's culture of irresponsibility, welfare dependency and 'something for everything', a report released today has found.

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On this day 200 years ago

Alistair Lexden - Friday, May 11 

On 11 May 1812 Spencer Perceval was assassinated.

On this day 100 years ago

Alistair Lexden - Wednesday, May 9 

A century ago, the Conversative & Unionist Party was formed.

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Rt Hon Sir George Young Bt

Sir George was appointed Leader of the House of Commons and Lawd Privy Seal in May 2010.

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