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JSDM to LOTB 0923T01Jun10. “5-year term, and constructing Quality rather than Quantity of Governance.
My Lords, pray patience, for I believe the following will show the relevance of certain greater issues to the fixed 5-year term one, and to greater positive-potentials which are presently deeply hidden.
Not only a Democracy but any worthy system of government has the job-and-duty of recognising and best-meeting the real Needs of every one of its People.
The name of that governance-business is 'Politics', in which the People have not only no skill but totally inadequate enablement and therefore no practical and constructive empowerment.
{Barber 'Strong Democracy' 2003, pages 121 (")To be political is to have to choose...under the worst possible circumstances("), and 307 Agenda for (")A Strong Democratic [egalitarian] Program for the [re]Vitalisation of Citizenship(")}.
My Lords, with every respect given where that respect has truly been earned, but you (we) do not need solely 'distinguished people' in Parliament; nor even younger professional-careerists, albeit further down the decade-by-decade constitutionally-barriered track such might be proportionately-elected.
Person A in Britain today, living healthily, happily, and citizenlike off £200 per week, can thereby be said to be 100% personally-efficient, at making ends meet & at minimally destroying (consuming) Earth's and civilisations' Lifesupports.
Sub-conclusions:
#1 Person B 'needing' twice that amount is only 50% personally-efficient (at living in the 75% lifestyle-timeframe regardless of his/her job-efficiency in the 25% workplace-timeframe.
#2 Person B is twice as destructive of common-lifesupports as is Person A.
#3 Person B can be assessed at best to be only 50% long-term sustain-worthy.
Banking chiefs, and many similarly wasteful politicians and professional-careerists, are still held to be indispensable, 'worth their weight in gold'; and tens of millions of other Britons are drawing and being given from the Common Purse many multiples of that one legislated healthily sufficient human-living (£200pw)shown above.
It can even be said, formally-argued, morally-reasoned, and life-experience substantiated, that any person drawing or being given more than that one human-living is being falsely and more importantly wastefully 'distinguished'.
What matters between elections and other sorts of voting is the quality of British Governance, and of its its constructively two-way linking to the non-politicised serious needs and submissions of the individual citizen no less than to the collectivised needs and submissions of numbers of citizens.
I suggest that the achievement first of such greater quantity (and quality, incidentally) of serious submission from the Citizenry (between Votings) would greatly catalyse and support the achievement of better quality parliamentary and political governance.
Thereupon, by definition, both the 75% lifestyle-timeframe of the People and the 25% workplace-timeframe of the Government would become much more positively efficient, and thereby eventually be judgeable as being longest-term sustain-worthy as well as in all senses sustainable.
As British 'democracy' currently still languishes, no term of parliament fixed or otherwise will become efficient until a non-political proficient intermediary service is implemented between the People and the Parliaments.
Such a new service should facilitate, seriously comprehend and consider, respond to or publicise, and recommend further advocacy for, every citizen's seriously submitted need, question, life-experience or constructive-suggestion.
Call it perhaps 'The British Citizen's Serious Governance-Submissions Clearing House'; and staff it not only with prospective parliamentary candidates, officers, advocacy-students, and a proportional voluntary (expenses-only) cross-section from The People, but with facilitation and guidance by Lords who for one reason or another are unable to be in their chamber or committee seats.
The term of Parliament will no longer matter, because Britain will have achieved both quality and sufficiency, in place of inordinately-wasteful & destructive quantity-chasing.
My Lords and watchful People, I plead that these Matters be seriously worked around both governance and community Tables.
a.m. Tue 01 June 2010. |