Comments on: Voting Reform: We The People http://thethunderdragon.co.uk/2008/08/voting-reform-we-the-people.html Don't annoy a dragon, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:51:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Baht At http://thethunderdragon.co.uk/2008/08/voting-reform-we-the-people.html#comment-3374 Baht At Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:36:29 +0000 http://thethunderdragon.co.uk/2008/08/voting-reform-we-the-people.html#comment-3374 If the choice is between having the informal english sort of election where you turn up, are trusted to give your own name and vote and any other more formal system then I'd want a significantly more formal way of dealing with anyone who dared but themselves forward as a candidate and got very few votes. Life imprisonment rather than merely losing their deposit comes to mind. The problem is not the voters or how they vote - the problem is the parasitical political class that has grown over the years until politics is now considered a profession rather than a duty. That in it self sums up the problem - professional politicans are in it to make money first and serve the people second whereas the old system of the bumbling amateur who went into politics to have something to do of an evening until his father died and he took over managing the estate there was a least a chance that the interests of the people figured somewhere in the politicians thoughts. Personally I'd go back to a system of public voting so that those who voted for people like Blair and Cameron could be identified and persecuted for their crimes. If the choice is between having the informal english sort of election where you turn up, are trusted to give your own name and vote and any other more formal system then I’d want a significantly more formal way of dealing with anyone who dared but themselves forward as a candidate and got very few votes.

Life imprisonment rather than merely losing their deposit comes to mind.

The problem is not the voters or how they vote - the problem is the parasitical political class that has grown over the years until politics is now considered a profession rather than a duty.

That in it self sums up the problem - professional politicans are in it to make money first and serve the people second whereas the old system of the bumbling amateur who went into politics to have something to do of an evening until his father died and he took over managing the estate there was a least a chance that the interests of the people figured somewhere in the politicians thoughts.

Personally I’d go back to a system of public voting so that those who voted for people like Blair and Cameron could be identified and persecuted for their crimes.

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