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  • MPs shouldn't be paid, nor be allowed to own land. The Greeks got it right the first time (so I hear).

    Hah.

    I just went and looked up the criteria for standing as a MP. I'd consider it, but I think it would be too draining and that I'd make no real difference. I also fear there would be a lot of pomp to the role, and that my lack of tact would offend everyone.

    Oh well.

    I'd also have to stand as an independent. No party fits my criteria.

    I want to see transparency and accessibility. I want politics to not be 30 seconds every 5 years by putting a cross in the box, but to be an active and engaging thing in which a ward could constantly affect how the representative of that ward voted.

    Basically I want to see representative politics front and foremost, and no party politics. I want to be able to have a system in which (if I were the MP) I could pose a question before a debate, have a mini debate locally, and then take those views and voting preference and just go do that in parliament.

    In which case you don't need to elect me... just elect anyone who will give you that.

    I want politics to engage people.

    What the Greeks got right was an open forum in which the citizens themselves would vote freely.

    I'm a strong believer in people. I guess it's why I run a forum and not a blog.

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