Friday, July 06, 2007

[lesson 3] new order

Moving from the negative to the positive, what are the next steps?

1] Wresting control of government out of the hands of the cabals by focussing on the preselection procedures of all parties, especially the big two:

a] opening of all party memberships on a nominal fee covering admin and paperwork to any interested person, subject to criminal and psychological checks;

b] automatically yearly rotated party hierarchy positions into other income bands;

c] automatic declaration of all interests, subject to public scrutiny;

d] open recruiting drives in all major centres constituting an agreed proportion of the party budget;

e] automatic free local airtime of two minutes for any shortlisted preselection candidate;

f] listing of all aspiring candidates, with contact info in local papers and on an internet site which is advertised around the city;

g] right to set up soapboxes at any public venue and if garnering a quota of petition names, the local party must consider that name.

2] All home nations to have their own legislatures, including England, resolving the West Lothian Question:

a. Westminster becomes the English parliament;

b. British Advisory and Defence Council [responsible for Defence and international dipomacy] situated on either the Isle of Man or Jersey.

3] [In England]:

a. Mono-cameral legislature elected under proportional representation, the Queen's Premier Minister being the acknowledged leader of the party with the highest proportion;

b. House of Lords one third hereditary, one third appointed, one third elected, fulfilling its full role as the house of review;

c. Bill returned for the third time is null and void.

4]

a. DTI having a progressively reduced regulatory role but an increased advisory and promotional role, using tax incentives and free economic zones for those sectors it wishes to promote;

b. This doesn't advocate free trade but fair trade for a nation's traditionally accepted manufacturing strengths which will still enjoy progressively reducing tarrif protection linked to overall product and profit margins;

c. Business-friendly DTI stacked with businessmen and women, of declared interests, who constitute its advisory council whilst the executive functions are still run by the Minister;

d. Tax incentives and fast tracking for start up businesses and for financial institutions who will provide reduced rate loans to both start ups and short term businesses;

e. Incentives for major business to allocate start up funds for aspiring talent from secondary and tertiary institutions.

5]

a. Removal of all fees from tertiary students and entry predicated only on mark quotas by examination and coursework in the final year of school, open to any resident of seven years or longer;

b. Openly declared business recruiting allowed;

c. Fixed term positions for professors and lecturers, renewable by public forum in the same manner as elected positions in government;

6]

a. Trade sanctions [as distinct from military solutions] the sole means of coercion internationally, pressure on the UN to support such moves and provide financial incentives to any country operating this way;

b. Progressive multilateral disarmament [anti-ballistic treaties and the like] automatically renewable under UN auspices [not unlike auditing] in a progressive form [not unlike the situation in the late 80s/90s;

c. Countries which won't play ball sanctioned out of existence and trade cut off - the sole effective method.

7]

a. Financial incentives from the bolstered UN [which is currently serving many evil purposes] to countries demonstrating stable peace both within their borders and with neighbours;

b. Massive allocation of UN resources for water desalination and extraction projects worldwide;

c. Rotating HQ of the UN in the country of the Secretary-General's nation;

d. Secretary-General to serve 10 years.

8 comments:

  1. Some interesting and excellent ideas in there Your Lordship.

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  2. So will you be appointed or elected to the upper chamber?
    I'll just comment on the bit I know something about - education. Yes, remove all tertiary fees but don't base anything on coursework. It's a cheat's charter.

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  3. Nice to see you started on the easy stuff.

    Should be fixed in a couple of weeks.

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  4. Some sound ideas here and some terrible ones.

    the way votes are counted is very important. to have a PR system is more disenfranchising than a FPP vote system.

    PR allows a greater use of party lists and the control of the represenatives by the party.

    All the rest is ound. i would say though the biggest challenge in edcuationg people. At the moment here in the UK more peoplre prefer watching Big Brother to do anything else!

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  5. CUS - yes, i was actually going to propose preferential but that perpetuates the two party system.

    Education - agree on coursework but maybe some sort of blend could be achieved.

    Bag, Colin and Welsh - I nourish obscurity. Office is not something I seek. I have more in common with the cabals I rail against.

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  6. Far too much here to comment on everything, but here are a few remarks:
    "b] automatically yearly rotated party hierarchy positions into other income bands;" ?? Why? I do not want any of my representatives chosen just because they do/do not have any cash.

    "e] automatic free local airtime of two minutes for any shortlisted preselection candidate;"

    Free? Who's paying? Father Xmas?

    "British Advisory and Defence Council [responsible for Defence and international dipomacy] situated on either the Isle of Man or Jersey." Advisory? So not binding? Why remote IM or Jersey? Neither is the centre of the UK by any means, nor does any have any international standing in the way London does.

    "the Queen's Premier Minister being the acknowledged leader of the party with the highest proportion;"

    Misunderstands PR. Under PR several minority parties could form coalitions (usually in what were once smoke filled rooms, _after_ the election and on the basis of undisclosed horse-trading) and control Parliament.

    "c. Countries which won't play ball sanctioned out of existence and trade cut off - the sole effective method." No it isn't. Sanctions did not shake Saddam's hold on power, they just impoverished many of his citizens. Would never be possible v Iran, which has too many natural resources.


    I'll finish on a controversial note: "Massive allocation of UN resources for water desalination and extraction projects worldwide;"

    Any increase in standard of living for those at the bottom of third world countries leads to an increase in population and therefore an increase in poverty. If the cycle continued eventually there would be standing room only on the planet. Only answer is for Africa to get with the idea of birth control, which many find anathema.

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  7. Thanks for that, Political Umpire. Now I have to take it all in and then comment.

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