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).

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.

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.

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.

Sure mate, we’ll turn our back on the only viable way under First Past The Post to boot the ACTUAL Tories out of office.

Get of your idealistic high-horse, look around and realise this land, thanks to Murdoch and a deeply entrenched class system, is full of right wingers that’ll NEVER vote in anything more left than Blair, Gordon, and Starmer into power. They just know Sunak is out of ideas and they’re willing to switch sides.

Diet Tory he may be in rhetoric, but better than the full-sugar Tories rotting away the roots of our institutions and futures to sell to their mates.

Mate you are talking out of your arse here.

No, the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact did not cause or lead to the Holocaust. Jewish people were already being persecuted and sent to concentration camps long before 1939.

Fascism is right wing social policies, left wing economic policies (National Syndicalism, economic interventionism, etc.).

More accurately the Tories going further right is social-authoritarianism with libertarian economics. Like if Truss and Braverman had a bastard child they emotionally abused into a psychopath ultra-capitalist.

The fucking ghoul.

Suella Braverman complaining about the buffet having too much spicy food, whilst trying really hard to convince herself that the cucumber sandwich she’s forcing down has flavour.

Sunak boldly proclaiming that he stopped himself from making it a veggie only menu and waiting for the pats on the back.

And Moggy rocking back and forth in the corner pining for his wet nurse now that his only friend BoJo has been grounded.

Next day headlines: National Food Shortage as Lizz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng destroy the buffet table.

I’m from the UK and from the North. Don’t try and understand the stupidity of these people from these areas as economically developed as the worst parts of former soviet states now in the EU. These areas received a lot of EU development funding and still voted for Brexit AND the Tories (in 2019) that imposed austerity that made their post 2008 lives worse.

They are thick as mince and deserve the ridicule as much as the lying brexit politicians deserve jail time.

The only hope to not repeating the mistakes is the best quality education for as many people as possible. This hopefully enough of the smart ones from these areas are politically aware and active enough to offset the manipulation of the morons.

cough overhead lines cough

You’re not being cynical, if anything you’re being too generous about the average intelligence of us brits.

The regions that received the most money European development fund still voted for Brexit despite having “Funded by the EU” plaques on everything and you’re expecting them to comprehend geopolitics.

They haven’t got the luxury of thinking about that when they’re worrying about where their next meal is coming from.

No fucking shit.