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Freedom
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Relax, you are free to think, no partisan bias, this is a political party-free zone....
The British electorate shows no confidence in political parties, but parties remain in denial of this fact.
Adjusting electoral support for non-registered voters estimated at around 5%, no British political party gained more than 20% of the support of the electorate. The Labour party with just 19% of electorate support governs with an absolute voting majority over all other parties.
The sum total of membership of all British political parties does not surpass 1% of the electorate. Our largest parties do not pass for more than factional minorities who are wholly unrepresentative of tte diversity of the population of the United Kingdom.
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Leading issues
The leading issues currently facing the people of the United Kingdom emanate from a single source. This is the lack of motivation, on the part of all political parties, to serve the United Kingdoms social and economic constituencies by seeking to operate on the basis of open, transparent and participatory decision-making. Party "machines" and the politicians who serve them always operate on a tendentious or manipulative basis of decision-making, largely geared to their gaining power or remaining in power. This process always corrupts the ability of constitutional provisions to uphold individual freedom.
Core issues
Representation
In order to return the power of free expression of the people in decision-making at the local and national levels there is a need to replace political parties and any representation by politicians allied to such collectives. There is a need to replace such party-adherents by independent represenatives who are free from the corrupting influence of political party whips, party dogma and any other forms of factional influence.
Strengthening independent politics
Our constitutional provisions are not conducive to facilitating the work and effectiveness of independents representatives because of the range of procedures created and sustained by political parties and which have the effect of marginalising such competition1. Most of these procedures are those identified as constraining individual freedom of expression. There is therefore a need for an educational campaign whereby the people of Britain have a wider access to information explaining the benefits of independent representation, what changes are necessary to strengthen the effectiveness of community representation and to propose policies able to bring this about.
The imperative of appropriate constitutional provisions
Although independent representation can strengthen the expression of community preferences in decision-making there exist some dangers. One is the potential for independents confusing their freedom of expression with their personal desire to promote their own preferred agendas in emulation of political party behaviour. The other reality is that any evolution towards a more indpendent basis of representation will face an enormous challenge arising from pressure from the vested interests of political parties, their politicians, large segments of the British media, commercial and other interest groups who current support the status quo. There is a need for some fundamental policy changes designed to alter our constitutional provisions so as to ensure that independents can bring about a more effective levering of community preferences into local and national political agendas. At the same time such provisions should be designed to prevent abuse of the status of "having been democratically elected" acting as a cover for the elected to introduce personal agendas. Any evolution towards a more transparent independent representation will require considerable thought and action applied to the identification of constitutional changes to strengthen the operation and legitimacy of independent representation. The imperative, at all times, should remain the transparent accommodation of the preferences of the social and economic constituencies..
The role of e-mancipation
This website is an attempt to support the development of a wider debate on this important topic and the dissemination of analysis and other information in the form, of papers, pamphlets and propositions. The objective is to strengthen the ability of the people of the United Kingdom to gain a freer expression of their preferences at local and national levels through independent representation.
1 This marginalization of any form of potential representation which is not aligned to a political party pervades most so-called democractic systems as well as the process used toi elect Members of the European Parliament which is based on "party lists". |
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