One of the demands of the first workers' movement in the world, the Chartists, most active in Britain between 1838 and 1848, was annual Parliaments.
As well as demanding votes for all (votes for all men, at least; some of the more radical Chartists demanded votes for women too), the movement insisted on voters gaining real control by being able to choose their representatives anew, just as the secretaries of trade union branches and similar bodies have to face new elections each year.
It is the one Chartist demand which has never even been approximated. On 19 October, the journalist Geoffrey Wheatcroft, in the Guardian, declared: "Now more than ever, Britain needs the last Chartist reform".
Socialist Organiser, forerunner of Solidarity, used to raise the demand a lot in the early 1980s, as a counter to the Thatcher Tories' use of their 1979 election victory as a mandate to rampage as they wished for five years after that. The demand, always just, may become more current again if the Cameron/Osborne Tories win the coming election and do as they have promised.