Fiona MacTaggart MP defends her Fabian Democracy Day proposal to introduce compulsory voting on the OurKingdom website, but Suzy Dean is unconvinced.

Fiona MacTaggart's proposal to introduce compulsory voting was the idea to improve our democracy which won most support at September's Fabian Democracy Day conference.

That debate continues on the OurKingdom blog.

Revisiting the conference debate, Suzy Dean attacks the idea as evidence of an elite concern with 'improving turnout rather than tackling the reason for low turnout' but Fiona MacTaggart argues in response that it would 'change election campaigns from being primarily about mobilisation and instead focus them on persuasion'.

Read the pieces, and have your say.

The OurKingdom blog is part of the openDemocracy website, dedicated to holding an ongoing conversation about the future of the United Kingdom, including the debates on citizenship, constitutional reform and Britishness.

Also on the OurKingdom site, commentator Peter Oborne, defends David Cameron's vision, disagreeing with Fabian General Secretary Sunder Katwala's analysis of the right's future. You can also read Sunder's article on the new ideas which should shape the left's next generation agenda.

This conference is linked to the Fabian Society's Democracy debate.