A Kick In The Ballots

Tea Party activists are seeking to add a Taxpayers ballot line in New York. We, too, need a ballot line system, such that voters would be able to indicate that they were voting for a given candidate specifically as endorsed by a smaller party or other campaigning organisation, with the number of votes by ballot line recorded and published separately.

However, why stop there? In the course of each Parliament, each party should submit to a binding ballot of the whole constituency electorate its locally determined internal shortlist of two for Prospective Parliamentary Candidate. And it should submit to a binding ballot of the whole national electorate its nationally determined internal shortlist of two for Leader.

Each of those parties should also submit to such a national ballot the 10 policies proposed by the most of its branches, with each voter entitled to vote for up to two, and with the top seven guaranteed inclusion in the subsequent General Election manifesto.