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People agreeing on lots of issues means that they can disagree on some. So if one person agrees with points one to ten someone else might agree with them except for points two and five. Another person could agree with all but point nine and so on. So when it comes to a vote on a point the MP could vote for the point that he agrees with or vote against the point if he disagrees with it. Much more democratic. The current system of political parties and the method of voting favours the big two and keeps one of them in office to the exclusion of the rest. It does not give any other party even a smell of a chance of influencing decisions. |
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so in your ideal Parliamentary Democacy would you be reserving 50 %+ of the seats for women ?, since women make up more than 50 % of the population, surely in a truely democratic and winner take all society (you don't approve of proportional repesentation) women should be in the majority .
Have you considered the implications/complications if this was ever allowed to occur ....... 25 % would be absent at any one time either on Maternity leave, taking the kids to the Doctor, attending PTA meetings or getting their bunions seen to. Parliament would have to close early every day to allow the members to get to the child minders or a early hair appointment . Every month the Country would be at War with someone over some alleged slight . over to you ladies ;) ;) |
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There manifestos would have to be extremely detailed from day one which I doubt they would be. Also, what if 'new' information was released that made the MPs change their minds - would they still be forced to vote in line with their manifesto?
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I've always voted the way i want to vote - even if that disagrees with the party that i am a member of.
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For instance, their manifesto says that they will want to support more people going to college - a bill is presented that says that by law parents have to take out a covenant at birth. They could either vote for it or against it under the new freedom voting that you're introducing. An MP could argue that voting against the bill meant that students would take out their own funding and make them responsible for their own education. See what I mean, they could argue either way that it supported their manifesto so that would give them freedom to buddy up with any other MP. |
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Supporting more people going to college doesn’t mean that the MP would have to agree with whatever method is dreamed up to make it happen. Thus voting against a proposal to make parents take out a covenant is not going against the MP’s manifesto. Now what about the other points? Or is it ‘cherry picking’ time? However I was naïve enough to hope that responders to entwisi’s original post at http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f69/accyweb-elections-37647.html would enter into the spirit of it and come up with their own ideas rather than picking holes in other people’s. After all that was the object of the exercise proposed by entwisi – for forum members to present their own manifestos. I just modified it to limit it to one subject in a manifesto. What would be your vision on Parliamentary reform? It is all too easy to destroy but not so easy to create. To construct you need the intelligence that is greater than that of an amoeba. Present company excepted, but how many amoebas have we on this forum? |
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a·moe·ba also a·me·ba http://cache.lexico.com/g/d/premium.gif http://cache.lexico.com/g/d/speaker.gif (ə-mē'bə) Pronunciation Key n. pl. a·moe·bas also a·me·bas or a·moe·bae also a·me·bae (-bē) Any of various one-celled aquatic or parasitic protozoans of the genus Amoeba or related genera, having no definite form and consisting of a mass of protoplasm containing one or more nuclei surrounded by a flexible outer membrane. It moves by means of pseudopods. Are 'pseudopods' the same as wheels? |
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pseu·do·pod (sd-pd) n. A temporary projection of the cytoplasm of certain cells or of certain unicellular organisms, especially amoebas, that serves in locomotion and phagocytosis. I don't know about that, because, as a certain deluded pensioner from Darwen seems to think, I'm a bit lacking in brain cells. What he (and the above definition) doesn't know, is that the correct plural of amoeba is amoebae, not amoebas, which happens to be an Americanism. Doesn't that august and factual journal 'Private Eye' have a column entitled 'pseuds corner'? They'll surely know about pseudopods. |
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