2. What do we want?

Answer: Reform. We want nothing less than a complete reform of the Parliamentary system. It’s not just about removing the unfairness and injustice that the present Government represents, but removing the corrupt system that spawned it and all recent Governments. And it’s about radically changing the composition of Parliament – moving it forward, consigning the failed two-party system to history.

Did you know that the Whips in the major parties in Parliament regularly force MPs to vote, not on their own moral principles or according to the will of their constituents but according to the Party Line?

In any issue deemed of high importance to the Party's future MPs are not allowed to vote for what they feel is right. They are routinely threatened with the withdrawal of privileges and manipulated by 'carrots' of opportunities for promotion within the Party. We believe that Democracy is castrated right there. We want to abolish or completely reform the Whip system. We want to see a Parliament which is no longer dominated by two or three major parties so they can no longer force issues against the will of us, the people.
Our dream is to produce a result at the next election which will effectively bring in a multi-party system instead – a House of Commons filled with individuals who regardless of their ‘colour’ (political affiliation) will serve their constituents and their moral conscience first, and their own self-interest and future political ‘career' last. We believe that if this is achieved, it will no longer be possible for politicians to gang up and bully us all into wars we don’t want to fight, pointless animal slaughter we don’t approve of, the underhanded privatisation of the National Health Service for profit, and the signing of treaties like TTIP which will disempower our country enabling international companies to override the democratic will of our people.
Answer: A mixed bag of decent MPs. The result of the last election was that no party garnered enough seats to form a government. Behind closed doors deals were done which saddled us with a post-election coalition that nobody voted for. We were all cheated of that decision and the coalition effectively became one party with the capability to ignore or bully parliament allowing them to do whatever they wanted for 5 bleak years. It’s a kind of serial dictatorship. In the next Parliament, rather than another coalition, we would like to see individual MP's of mixed affiliations who are also committed to major reform and transparency. We'd like to see them transparently forming groups to solve problems in specific areas. In this new situation, no ruling party would be a big enough to force a policy through against the will of Parliament. This is very close to the way Germany already operates. Decision-making is often slower, but it does not suffer from the wasteful yo-yoing between extremes when a government changes, and any shady deals with business interests are quickly exposed and eliminated.

(note … if you’re following the site, yes - this last paragraph is new. We’re learning. I originally thought it would be good to aim for some kind of benign pre-election coalition, but I can now see that this wouldn’t work, for various reasons. But it’s all to the good because if we do get a more even mix of party representation, working parties can be formed for specific purposes on key issues where there is consensus. Elsewhere those liaisons would not operate; so no coalition is in existence. Even more importantly, the problem of a new despot or a ‘Rainbow Dictator’, doesn’t arise. - Bri )

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