Reviving the election lottery

By Simon Parker | 14 April 2015
  • Simon Parker

I keep hearing that this is the most unpredictable election in British history. But the outcome is not really all that hard to guess. Either David Cameron or Ed Miliband will be Prime Minister and their parties will continue to dominate Parliament.

The election remains a choice between two white, Oxbridge-educated men who have spent their lives within the Westminster bubble. Shouldn’t there be more to politics than this?

If we really want to renew democracy, locally and nationally, we should radically open it up; involve the people not by consulting them, but by randomly selecting them to become councillors and peers.

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