What if: Stop Brexit or Exit from Brexit
There is a growing demand for either: A people’s vote on the final Brexit Deal. The options not yet clear but could include any permutation of: Deal on Offer, No Deal, Continue Negotiation, Abandon...
View ArticleA Failure of Parliamentary Democracy – the ongoing tale
We are being failed by Parliament - which is meant to be the corner stone of our Representative Democracy. But it is not representative and consequently it is questionable if it is democratic
View ArticleManipulation and EU Elections – twilight of Democracy?
Given what we now know about the way elections and referenda can and have been manipulated, what can we do to protect our democracy?
View ArticleIn Praise of the Fixed Term Parliament Act
There has been much comment about “the problems with the Fixed Term Parliament Act” preventing a Government from calling an election when it wants to – even preventing a resolution of the dreaded...
View ArticleReflections on Parties
We all are meant to like a good party – but we all know some atrocious ones. Last December (12 December 2019 to be precise) we saw the impact of a number of lousy parties. A rough headcount: A Nasty...
View ArticleThinking the Unthinkable
What to do if convinced - the country is going in the wrong direction - you have no #democratic agency - you believe an informed majority would agree with you - you are not a military #dictator in...
View ArticleThe Duty of the Opposition
An opposition should be absolutely slaughtering the government for getting to this [EU Trade Deal] situation and they should be exposing whether we have come here through naiveté, incompetence or...
View ArticleThe Real Covid Conspiracy
It does rather look as if both administrations have used COVID to further their political aims. They must both be aware that either their negligence or their incompetence have stoked and are stocking...
View ArticleBringing Down a Prime Minister
What does it take to bring down a Prime Minister and what does that say about our political system? Being Prime Minister when the chickens come home to roost over Brexit? All the lies and distortions...
View Article(Representative) Parliamentary Democracy under Strain
Recent events in the UK have shown a lack of understanding of what it means to be a Parliamentary Democracy whilst also showing the weaknesses of the form of Parliamentary Democracy we have in the UK....
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