I'd personally have the Commons elected proportionally and keep the districts, be it with Single Transferrable Vote, for the Lords

House of Lords is basically the equivalent of the US senate.

You need someone in the position of head of state.

Also it has become apparent that you can buy lordship with party donations

That's what monarchies are good for. Raised from birth to be a head of state.

Ryecast no it isnt

I mean from a political structure stance

Yeah kind off

the whole two houses thing

frankly, the Senate needs tweaking too.

Term limits!

I don't agree on temr limits if you are elected.

Term limits, maybe. Age limits, defnitely. Enforced average national wage payment, absolutely.

Its complicated with wages but i would be for more transparency

I don't agree with that either. You want the ppl that are making desition for your country to be looked after. Less likely to take back handers.

Complete lack of privacy in their communications, also yes.

Same for their bank accounts.

British politics need much more transparency imo

their pay is fuck all in a big ship.

Being a member of government should not be a reward, it should be something people don't want to become for any reason other than serving.

Especialy when public money are involved

The core problem with term limits is that it creates a political class

Incumbency doesn't just happen because someone's doing a good job

I'd also institute Single Transferrable Vote, if people want to keep the districts.

It happens in large part due to apathy.

And the lack of viable third parties is due to the fact that the first-past-the-post voting system used actively works against the growth of said third parties.

Mmhmm

The way it works, not voting for a republican or democrat is essentially a vote for the other party

Yep

Exactly.

And actually swapping parties is two votes for that party.

Two party system sucks

The only way a third party can be viable is if they manage to, on their very first go, manage to win.

it *can* happen

but yeah

Yeah it kind of did happen in gb

@Somi to prevent a government position being seen as a reward maybe we should stick 'em in a barracks and feed them only cafeteria food.

With liberal Democrats

At one point

And in that case, they'd simply replace either of the two original parties in the long term.

I ahte this line of arguement that a vote for a third is vote for the other. How do you think the UK got their Brexit ref? It was coz of the growth in votes for UKIP. Everyone that voted for them knew they would never win but the message was sent. Politics is a long game.