Democracy is made up of an informed electorate.
It sounds simple but let me deconstruct this. We need information to be informed and we need the ability to exercise our vote in a meaningful way to be a valid electorate. In the current set up we get neither and thus we cannot honestly call the [...]

We’re ecstatic with the support we’ve received so far for the Open Primaries petition. Thanks to Stephen Fry (and to everyone else as well) for tweeting about the campaign – and for nearly breaking the website! Hopefully, we’re now back to normal service, so if you weren’t able to sign the petition first thing this [...]

They just don’t get it.
As MPs continue to duck (quack!) the public’s wrath over expenses, that’s the mantra we keep hearing. The belief that all that’s wrong with our political system is the people who’ve ended up at the top of it is a seductive one. But the real effect of the public scandal has [...]

Welcome to Open Up.
We are campaigning for an honest, effective and modern democracy; a government of the best possible people, who truly represent us.
We want Open Primaries in every constituency, where the people select their own candidates, and where anyone can put themselves forward to be a candidate.
When do we want to see this reform? [...]