Pics: Halloween protest on ‘Zombie Parliament’

On Friday over 60 campaigners dressed as undead politicians headed up Whitehall and past Downing Street to pay a visit to the “Parliament of the Living Dead.”

The ‘Zombie Walk’ was organised by Vote for a Change campaign, which is leading calls for a more accountable parliament with a referendum on the voting system.

Willie Sullivan from the Vote for a Change campaign said:

Some people may have noticed the smell round Westminster in the last few ...

months. Our MPs, as if in a trance, are drawn by an unknown force to John Lewis’s. Instead of men and women with minds of their own we see mindless ghouls shambling through the Lobbies. We have elections in hundreds of safe seats where even a corpse could win a ‘job for life’. This is the Parliament of the Living Dead.

Westminster residents appear to be canvassing for a Second Job in George Romero’s latest movie. So this Halloween we decided to give MPs a treat – a visit from some rosette clad cadavers, who will be heading up Whitehall with a message that things need to change.

Our Undead Democracy needs a shot in the arm, and that starts with a referendum on fair votes. We need a parliament where voters’ voices are heard, and MPs are truly accountable – a parliament that’s quite simply better equipped to do its job, representing us, the voters.

The ‘Vote for a Change’ campaign is calling for a referendum on the voting system in the wake of the expenses crisis.

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