Liked this a lot by former Aussie PM Malcolm Turnbull supporting the amendment I have put down for compulsory voting
Compulsory Voting in the UK?An Australian solution may help heal Britain's fractured democracy.open.substack.com
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Antonia Bance MP
Labour MP for Tipton, Wednesbury and Coseley. Member of the Business and Trade select committee. Proudly repping British industry and the Black Country. Trade unionist, mama, runner, reader QTs closed, replies open
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Absolutely the right position from the new PM - and a massive consensus position across Parliament Now to concentrate on fixing palliative care
Paul BrandBREAKING: Andy Burnham says the assisted dying debate should wait until after palliative care and social care have been fixed. “It’s very challenging to introduce that wider debate” when the systems are in crisis, he says. ‘Not now’, in other words.
Which is why Labour has brought in NHs-style collective bargaining which will cover all care workers no matter who they work for
Paul BrandLouise Casey makes the point that care is underpaid compared to the NHS - another example of a Cinderella service so painfully laid bare during Covid-19. Care workers get an average annual salary of £23k. NHS healthcare worker starts on £25k. We undervalue care as a society.
Which isn’t to say that I don’t agree with @stephenkb.bsky.social’s assertion in today’s newsletter, writ large for young people in my ends- “The rate of young people who become Neets is ultimately downstream of the strength of their local economies, not the curriculum”
Antonia Bance MPIn the last two weeks I have talked to two local headteachers wanting to bring in technical options for 14-16s (both automotive related, no surprise), and every conversation with a manufacturing employer comes round to finding the workers they need Glad to see the PM’s announcement today
Very pleased to see this, which will matter a lot to a small handful of families, some of whom live in my ends
Parents on benefits to get £4,500 a year if child starts apprenticeshipThe annual bursary aims to end a ‘benefit trap’ that can leave families worse off when teenagers move from education into paid trainingwww.thetimes.com
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I would personally see a broader and more equal electorate, in which younger, poorer, and more insecure people were no longer consistently under-represented, as a major egalitarian and democratic advance.
Gerry HassanWhy do you think demanding that all UK subjects vote on the threat of punitive punishment is some kind of advance? We have an unwritten UK constitution. We have zero fundamental rights. Yet some folk want to fundamentally rebalance the state-subject relationship. Deal with the real issues.
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From the Putney Debates onwards, defenders of limited participation in parliamentary elections have always claimed that democratising reforms to expand the electorate are both impossible and a threat to individual liberty. Sad to see these tropes wheeled out again in opposition to universal voting.
Gerry HassanThe UK is not going to move to compulsory voting. This would be a state assault on the individual's right not to participate and massive state over-reach. Only ten countries in the world have enforceable compulsory voting and the UK is not going to join them anytime soon.