A new campaign hoping to inspire collective action to ensure the next Parliament makes a commitment to fix our political system launches today.

Power2010, formed from the 2006 Power Inquiry, will use mass campaign tactics and voting to identify the five changes to the UK political system the public most want to see.

Between now and next spring, they aim to build a nationwide movement for changing politics that will see publicly-backed priorities such as Party funding and fairer voting put directly to every candidate standing in the General Election.

Helena Kennedy QC, Chair of Power2010, and of the original Power Inquiry, said:

What is different about Power2010 is that – apart from changing politics – there is no agenda. We’re not asking the public to back POWER2010’s calls. We’re asking the public to create them. From fairer voting, cleaner funding, protecting privacy to the right to ‘sack’ MPs, it will be the public that decides what the next Parliament must do.

People have not forgotten how angry they were at finding out their taxes were paying for moats, dry rot and second homes. But whilst public confidence is at an all time low, the expenses scandal is only a symptom of a wider problem.

According to organisers, from today the campaign moves into 5 distinct phases:

1. The public and organisations submit their ideas for fixing politics via the website by Thursday 5 November

2. Power2010 will bring together citizens from across the UK to decide the shortlist of reforms to go to the public vote

3. On November 18th – the day of the Queen’s Speech – public voting begins.

4. The voting ends at midnight on 31st January. The five top reforms voted by the public are announced in February 2010 – creating the Power2010 Pledge

5. In the months to the General Election every candidate is pressed to back the Power2010 Pledge at hustings, via email, letters and the media.

Sign up here: http://www.power2010.org.uk

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