Young progressives Articles

With only months to go till the next election, all the major parties have been setting out their vision and ideas for the country. Late last year David Cameron delivered the Hugo Young lecture attempting to row back from his vitriolic anti-governmental conference speech and lay out his prospectus for Britain. But his speech was highly worrying as it demonstrated his flawed understanding of socioeconomic problems, and lacked any coherent analysis.

David Cameron has promised that, if he wins, he will reduce the size of the House of Commons, probably by 10 per cent. Andrew Tyrie has set out the scheme in detail. It sounds like a sensible non-partisan idea. Britain has the largest parliament of any major democracy. We also suffer from the Redistribution of Seats Act of 1944 which, by its bad drafting, guarantees an increase in the number of English MPs whenever there is a general redistricting.

Islam4UK describe themselves as a platform for the global front of Al-Muhajiroun, a successor to Hizb ut-Tahrir. Omar Bakri Muhammed, the Islamist leader who helped develop Hizb ut-Tahrir in the UK, is known to have once led Al-Muhajirounwhose aim is ‘Izhaar ud Deen’, or domination of the world. This includes re-establishing the Islamic Caliphate and introducing sharia law. Al-Muhajiroun’s two offshoots, ‘The Saviour Sect’ and ‘Al-Ghurabaa’, are banned in the UK for the ‘glorification’ of terrorism under the Terrorism Act 2006.

Following the UK Youth Parliament’s both historic and impressive
performance in the House of Commons two weeks ago, the prime minister
was asked if he supported lowering the voting age to 16. To my
surprise, he pledged his support for the policy but said yet more
consultation was needed.