Make Votes Matter

Regular listeners of the show will be familiar with Emma Harrison, who's been on a couple of times.

She's chief exec of Make Votes Matter, the leading campaign for PR in the country.

And they have put out a report in the last month or so called the Future Systems Report, which has done a lot of great work on analysing all of the different PR systems and boiling them down in a way that will help guide the National Commission's thinking.

We'll leave a link in the show notes for people that want to go and get their heads around the different systems, the pros and cons, which parties might be in favour of which ones, etc.

and in the 2015 election ended up debating the then Green Party leader Natalie Bennett in, funnily enough, the Hobart and St Pancras constituency, weirdly.

And as a result of that he ended up, because he was really animated by proportional representation, and ended up sitting on loads of panels organised by the pressure group Make Votes Matter, which is basically a campaign for proportional representation, essentially became increasingly sort of persuaded and radicalised by sitting next to Natalie on these panels, which was part of his route into the Greens over the years.

This is a preoccupation of Polanski as an individual, but also the party as well.

One of their most animating purposes throughout its entire history has been democratic reform.