Peter Mandelson has said "‘the era of pure representative government is coming slowly to an end’.

Across the devolved structures MSP’s, MLA’s and AM’s are now replaced on a regular basis without election. Out of 297 devolved legislators only 113 are

directly elected while 184 are party appointed (by party list).

In our British Parliament, which has been composed by the means of election for centuries, it is now proposed to replace parliamentary election with referendum.

In Scotland over four million electors will be locked out of parliamentary democracy.