Vote for your top five political reforms

[Wereworm]

Good Guardian article today by Timothy Garton Ash, making the point that with the two major parties divided more by managerial detail than by competing sets of ideologically coherent policies, and with the election itself corrupted by a collusion of journos and politicians in ersatz, staged, political discussion, we ought to concern ourselves more with ensuring future political reforms, than with the choice between Labour and Conservative. "The issue is not who governs us but how we are governed."

Our 20-century history as an "elective dictatorship" has been overlaid by increased centralisation during Labour's office, and by the appallingly degenerate state of the parliament that's meant to scrutinise govt. As well, it has been bolstered by a security culture and the erosion of civil rights.

You can go to www.power2010.org.uk/votes and vote for what you think are the top five political reforms. "The Power 2010 movement will then confront parliamentary candidates with these demands, and try to persuade them to endorse them."

[Wereworm]

whoops -- article is here

I vote for prop rep plus massively invigorated internal party democracy.

[Molesworth]

Thanks for the link wereworm. I've voted for a written constitution and the scrapping of ID cards, for starters.