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26.09.2009 // by Guy Aitchison

Guy Aitchison: Well, there's certainly no shortage of imagination and ideas out there when it comes to how we reinvigorate Britain's democracy. The contrast with the sterile thinking coming from Westminster couldn't be stronger.

Since we opened up submissions just over ten days ago, you've been sending in your ideas for reform in their hundreds. Over the coming weeks we'll be featuring some of the more interesting and imaginative of them on this blog. If you haven't yet submitted your idea for change you can do it here. Our first featured idea is from Stuart in Rotherham:

What's the big idea?
Make the manifesto mean something. In the run up to an election, parties should prepare a manifesto of what they propose to do in government. The elected party then has both a popular mandate and a legal obligation to do everything in their programme. If they want to do anything that wasn't in their programme, they have to get agreement from the electorate. If they fail to do what's in the manifesto, they have to get agreement from the electorate - and if that agreement is not given, it triggers an early election.

Why is this change important to you?

Under the present system, I don't know what I'm voting for. All parties promise to work miracles, but after the election, they do as they please and don't care what the voters want.