Because then the political parties can’t parachute inexperienced candidates into safe seats so that:

1. The new candidate gets elected in a safe seat and learns the ropes of political life as an MP.

2. More experienced candidates can be deployed to marginal constituencies to contest the seat.

Yeah she’s one for the pub quiz.

About the only use she is, aside from discrediting any policy suggestions that come out of the Institute for Economic Affairs (i.e. the Tuffton Street Twats).

No lasting damage done then.

IMO it should be further than that.

Open source software is, more often than not, used as digital infrastructure.

Governments around the world should absolutely be investing in open source software and actively contributing to it.

And that folks is how you keep the Tories in power.

Full Sugar Tory or Diet Tory.

One is definitely worse for your health.

Vote tactically and then harass the shit out of your MP to implement voting reform. Organise marches for voter reform.

That’s the only way, short of armed revolution, you’ll get any policies other than Blairite or Thatcherism into parliament.

What part of “Publicly Owned” is privatising the profit?

Read the fucking article.

Short answer: policies over parties and making politics more accessible to the public who wish to be fairly represented.

Weaken the power of all political parties. Policy groups and think tanks are allowed to form around single policies but not be a political group represented on the ballot box.

All policy groups get a fixed campaigning budget from the government they can not exceed. Benefits in kind are also counted to discourage corruption. All contributions are to be declared publicly and the named private individuals must be the sole source of the capital contribution.

MPs wishing to stand for election must declare the specific policies they support. They get a single A3 poster to be displayed in the polling station with the policies they support on it.

Polcies, must be stated in SMART format as any sensible manager would set for objectives: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound. Each element of the SMART layout may not exceed 2 side of A4, meaning a maximum of 10 pages for each policy.

Replace First Past The Post with Marked Preference.

Prime Minister is directly elected by the public from the pool of elected MPs through Marked Preference.

Create Citizen assemblies to tackle keystone reforms as they have been shown to have had great success in Ireland and other countries. Citizen assembly budgets are double that of private policy groups to keep the balance of money in politics firmly in favour of the majority not the few.

Slowly replace the House of Lords with the House of Assemblies. Those that have previously served in Citizen Assemblies are chosen at random to serve in the new House of Assemblies. The commissions works currently undertaken by the House of Lords, i.e. most of the work they do outside of scrutinising policy proposals, to be given to a technocratic jury of experts in their respective fields.

The creation of a federated civic social network to act as an online public space and centre for all e-government services (local, regional, and national).

And finally, some other reforms that also affect politics:

• Everyone’s tax records are publicly available. This is already a reality in Finland.
• All print, broadcast, and digital media companies that style themselves as “News” must adhere to the “fair and balanced” doctrine which will be over seen by an independent watchdog with powers to punish those seeking to spread disinformation.

You don’t get punished for not doing your job as an MP. Just ask John Stonehouse.

It should be. The UK political system needs urgent and humongous reform before further trust in the democratic institutions withers away.

And here we see another example of art predicting life

Paywall Removed Here

I take it you’re the one true Scotsman?

And that’s how you get another 10 years of Tories or a Tory-Reform coalition government.

There’s no need to apologise for stating obvious facts.

And the politicians protecting them.

Well Mark, you had the chance to back a welsh-made language learning app startup (made by a friend of mine) and passed them up so they’ve moved onto other things.

Don’t act surprised when an American language learning app decides to drop a relatively obscure language like Welsh.

I voted remain and I’m not joking: push Brexit voters into the ocean.

It’d increase the country’s average IQ by at least 10 points and significantly reduce the number of racists and grifters in the country.

(Yes I know not everyone who voted for brexit was racist, but all racists voted for brexit)

Fuck the Sun.

Fuck the Tories.

Fuck London.

How about Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds and the rest of the north secede from England and create Neo Mercia.

Says son of an emerald lord.

If you go there at night you can hear the ghost of Ferranti wailing in despair.

What nobody is talking about is the fact that they’ve specifically chosen £38,000 as the wage cut-off because that’ll exclude nurses who make a maximum of £34,500.

This is the Tories attempt to both reduce immigration and finally kill the NHS as they physically can’t get the people in and thousands of currently working nurses get sent back home.

The second human rights get repealed I am out of this fucking shithole of an island. I don’t care if I have to go to dover and nab a dinghy from some recently arrived migrants and claim political refugee status in Spain.