https://youtube.com/watch?v=vyLGxqxGT-I&si=
Trailer on YouTube with advance notice of my livestream on Monday 27th October at 1930 on Twitter / X @Gilt_Elephant or on YouTube @GiltElephant — with Neil Petrie, former UK intelligence, founder of the DirectDemocracy movement in the UK and author of the 2023 book “One Vote Away - Saving the West”.
We will explore
• what Direct Democracy is
• how it works
• its history in Switzerland
• how it could be made to apply in a first past the post, party-dominated system that is as antiquated and immovable as the UK’s seems to be (and, as a sub-part of that:
• why is it the party system that is probably the most corrupting factor in UK politics)
• who supports it in the UK
• how effective it might be in neutering the power of the parties
• how UK voters can use it — relatively easily — to put their aspiring local candidates to the test as to their intentions, and…
• longer term, what changes might be needed in the UK political system to permanently embed Direct Democracy into UK politics.
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