Category Archives: Democracy

Posts in category: "Democracy":

Are they our fault too ?

07Jun09 – 20:07

I've long harboured the belief that the third way was a dangerous ideological course. Like many very sensible ideas, it is, in practice, flawed.
The current state of politics seems to bear that out.
Some time ago, for reasons that were misguided, campaigning became a science.
We all became obsessed with 'turning out our vote', profiling the electors, [...]

By Cllr Tim Cheetham | Also posted in Labour, Left renewal | Tagged , | Comments (1)

How Labour can get out of this mess and do everyone else a favour

07Jun09 – 03:37

Picking up the optimistic theme of the previous post here by Dave Cole, I think that there is...

a cross-party consensus in support of political decentralisation;
an opportunity to challenge and largely replace the political caste that have stood by and allowed the power of Parliament to wither;
a widespread view that politics needs to be renewed, that [...]

By Paul Evans | Also posted in Political parties | Tagged | Comments (0)

To sign or not to sign

27May09 – 00:59

That is the question I have been asking myself this week.  I am referring, of course, to the ethics pledge that many Labour PPCs have been signing - over 130 so far.  Being a Labour PPC in a safe Tory seat, I wasn't expecting to have any significant decisions to make but everything is a [...]

By Andrew Skudder | Also posted in Labour, Moral panics, Trust | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

Infrastructures of Oppression

11Mar09 – 14:33

I've been accused by comrades, of excessive Porter bashing and not properly confronting the arguments of the Convention on Modern Liberty crowd. I think I'll have to plead guilty as charged on this score. So for a change, I'm going to put forward some more serious arguments, starting with the idea of an "Infrastructure of [...]

By Andreas Paterson | Also posted in Trust | Tagged , , | Comments (3)

On being a PPC

05Mar09 – 01:51

When I was invited to join the crowd here at Common Endeavour I was flattered of course.  Then I got a bit worried: with all these niches already identified and allocated I started to wonder what I could add to it until Damian suggested that as I was selected to stand for the Horsham constituency [...]

By Andrew Skudder | Tagged | Comments (0)

Spectacularly reactionary and illiberal. And ignored.

20Feb09 – 01:37

"The enemy at last was plain in view, huge and hateful, all disguise cast off."

Evelyn Waugh - Men at Arms
Like a lot of English people in the grip of Posh People’s Disease at the time, Evelyn Waugh had a few wobbles in the 1930s.
He and his chinless associates were tempted by Franco in Spanish Civil [...]

By Paul Evans | Also posted in Clarksonism, Liberal simpletons, Tories | Tagged , | Comments (0)