If you're going to chuck out the government/parliament there won't be anyone to come up with the solution.Greenman wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2023 10:05 amI don't have the solutions just the ideas, it's the ruling governments job to come up with the solutions, which they won't as they don't see that there is a problem!Count Steer wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2023 9:43 am
So, Greeny, which successful populist 'uprisings' do you think we should imitate? There don't seem to be many. Chávez in Venezuela, Mečiar in Slovakia? They both sort of became the elite they were supposed to replace. It's as well to have an idea of the better system you're going to replace things with. Getting rid of the first-past-the-post, 2 party system would be a start.
It's an ever increasing circle of doom!
Maybe one idea could be to empower ethical people from non privately educated backgrounds to stand for PM, and not let the usual corruption get in the way of making that reality.
Here's a few ideas. Pay MPs a lot more BUT, no second jobs, no 'expenses', no professional lobbying of MPs, no 'freebies', fixed, long sentences for any corruption. Limited terms eg max 15 years. No PMs lists of mates to be put in the Lords. (I wouldn't abolish it but it would be a lot smaller, no life peerages, compulsory retirement at 75).
PS PMs have regularly been from privileged backgrounds in the past and they didn't appear to be spivs like Eton seems to churn out these days...although maybe they were and we didn't know?)