The Case Against AV and Abolishing the Lords
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Philip Norton - now enobled as Lord Norton of Hull - is a renowned constitutionalist based at Hull University. He is also a Conservative peer, and his recent defence of the status quo, published on Conservative Home here, is well worth a read. The proposed system of the Alternative Vote is rather less fit for purpose, he suggests, than the current First Past the Post system, while the House of Lords does the job it is meant to do admirably well. Norton’s final point is that the system isn’t broken, and doesn’t need fixing - it’s only politicians who need to change. It is an eloquent conservative defence of the existing system, and a very useful read for students needing that articulate point of view from which to salvage a few notes. And it’s short - well within the attention span of most AS students!
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