United Kingdom - Proportional Representation Society still pushing after 140 years

Tom Monto
Jan 22, 2024
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Updated: Jan 31, 2024

Here's link to record of 100 years of activities by the Proportional Representation Society (U.K.)

The Best System: An account of the first hundred years of the Electoral Reform Society

The Best System: An account of the first hundred years of the Electoral ...

I bet you'll find the name Earl Grey there -- he was gov-gen of Canada at one time and gave us the Grey Cup.

also described himself as a "perfect fanatic" on subject of electoral reform.

Partly under his influence, Ottawa was first place in Canada to vote in referendum in favour of PR, in 1915 and was the first to see its democratic clamour ignored!

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