In each parliamentary election, I want the Government to add 'None of the above' to the list of constituency candidates. If that gets most votes, then none of the candidates is elected and the election must be run again around 6 weeks later, but none of the candidates from that first vote will be allowed to stand in the re-run election.
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I keep hearing Labour Party supporters lamenting the current state of the party. "I can't believe it's come to this," they say, "only two years after our historic landslide!" Propaganda can be a useful tool in the political game (political messages are, after all, always gross simplifications) - but believing your own propaganda only leads to disaster. If you want to succeed, you have to live in the real world.
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Posted by Paul Hazelden on January 9, 2022 at 10:48pm
I can't help but wonder if people in the centuries to come will look back at us, and laugh merrily at our strange belief in the divine right of voting, our commitment to the absolute power of unrestrained democracy.
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