tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509959543151548263.post6907580562125740789..comments2024-01-23T05:18:56.246+00:00Comments on Witterings From Witney: A Promising SilenceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509959543151548263.post-42591279260977853432010-07-14T12:51:11.821+01:002010-07-14T12:51:11.821+01:00Really, you are not still of a mind that accepts a...Really, you are not still of a mind that accepts all this nonsense? Not since the eleventh century have we had a real democracy. The politicians destroyed that even before it was even borne.<br /><br />Now, after seven hundred years the politicians have refined and redefined democracy to fit their own agenda whilst we, the morons, have progressively let them get away with it.<br /><br />You don't have a local representative who might look after your interests; not that is unless you have elected an independent. Your local MP (wherever you live)was selected by a local party committee and is beholden to that committee and his party for their support in order to retain his position.<br /><br />This has nothing to do with you and you have no sanction at all should he fail to heed your wishes.<br /><br />The fact is that in order to be more transparent in the way our system operates we should be required to vote for a party leader, no more and no less. He then should be at liberty to allocate seats in the House of Commons to whomever he wishes reletive to the percentage of votes he captured in the election.<br /><br />Is this not what happens now except not in that order?<br /><br />You should know now after 13 years of Brown and Blair that these promises are made to gain your vote for their party, nothing more. They have no intention or indeed reason to keep the promises.<br /><br />And now they want to change the voting system. Well,I should consider their intentions very carefully because whatever their motive it will certainly not be to enpower you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509959543151548263.post-78350316243576690872010-07-14T11:52:47.281+01:002010-07-14T11:52:47.281+01:00At national level only weak reform is on the cards...At national level only weak reform is on the cards, a glorified petition which government must not heed. We campaign for full direct democracy locally and nationally. In 2009 Cameron promised more -- see http://www.iniref.org/conlibdem.html<br />Basic proposal<br />http://www.iniref.org/case.htmlINIREF I&Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04707269392858513584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509959543151548263.post-34852654091767704182010-07-13T20:27:10.384+01:002010-07-13T20:27:10.384+01:00Exactly DP, exactly!Exactly DP, exactly!Witterings from Witneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11349563961787006775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509959543151548263.post-13728655621794559262010-07-13T20:22:03.283+01:002010-07-13T20:22:03.283+01:00Good point re: Hannan and Carswell. 'The Plan&...Good point re: Hannan and Carswell. 'The Plan' isn't going as described in the book, yet not a whisper.Dick Puddlecotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.com