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With the General Election nearly upon us, here's your chance to lay out your own manifesto for the UK. What would you do if you were in charge? Here's your chance to think big! (Or you can call for free hugs and chocolate biscuits. They're important too.)

(, Thu 23 Apr 2015, 17:23)
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Scrap Elections!!!!
That's right, scrap elections. 500 MP's chosen at random from the electoral register every 3 years or so. Can't be worse than the polical class that we have now, bending us over and expecting us to tug the forelock and say "thank you m'lud".
(, Wed 29 Apr 2015, 13:46, 8 replies)
Kind of like jury duty
It's not actually that bad an idea - maybe a proportion of the house of lords could be just picked a random to mix things up a bit.

Also: the are (or were) 650 MPs
(, Wed 29 Apr 2015, 13:50, closed)
Replace the House of Lords with a House of Demographics
Randomly selected people, profiled to match the population at large.
(, Wed 29 Apr 2015, 16:12, closed)
there used to be 659 seats
There are currently 650 seats and no MPs.
(, Wed 29 Apr 2015, 17:58, closed)
What you don't seem to have realised
is that the public are in general, utter cunts. In that respect the Houses of Parliament are a perfectly-representative subset of that.
(, Wed 29 Apr 2015, 14:57, closed)
that's right, laws should be designed, debated and implemented by randomly selected people.
Flawless argument, here.
(, Wed 29 Apr 2015, 17:58, closed)
JAID GOODIE 4 QEEN

(, Wed 29 Apr 2015, 18:11, closed)
CLARKSON 4 PRIMINISTUR!!!

(, Wed 29 Apr 2015, 18:29, closed)
Sortition m8, power to the demos

(, Wed 29 Apr 2015, 20:01, closed)

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