Regional PR with 10% or higher thresholds would be my first guess. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
It is very unfortunate that New Labour botched devolution by defining the English regions top-down rather than bottom up, thus having them fail. By laying out pros and cons we risk inducing people to join the debate, and losing control of a process that only we fully understand. - Alan Greenspan
So I might put the lower threshold at 4 and the upper threshold at 7 before subdividing down to four each. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
The regions for England have already been defined. Only London has its own elected assembly, while the others recently had their assemblies stripped from them and replaced with Local Authorities Leadership Boards.
The regions are already the English constituencies in the European parliament.
Unless it is separate PR in Wales and Scotland, the regional parties won't go along. Having it by regions in England itself makes Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland as distinct regions just "more of the same". I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
