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Life-Refreshment
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Questions people upwards to Democracy
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Questions To Democracy needing answers: feel free to copy.
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| Why does the British Constitution, and ensuing Legislation, fail to enable all levels of the democratic nation-state of Britain to perform fact-finding, scrutiny, and constructive-submission tasks, between elections, as a continuous democratic right ? |
| What governance abilities or skills does a citizen need in order to monitor, scrutinise, and make constructive-submissions concerning, our various National and Local Needs, Hows, Legislations and Problem-solving methods thereto ? |
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Where and at what price can the citizen acquire such essential democratic-citizen abilities or skills ? |
The lower down a civilisation's hierarchy individual human beings are located, the more disadvantaged, oppressed
and isolated they are forced to become.
Whilst the higher up individuals are raised, the more complacent, self-seeking and corrupt they become, not merely
in money, property and power, but in mind, spirit & moral functioning capability also.
Therefore a New and this time sustain-worthy Civilisation is needed, concurrently with initially random scattered practicums in local homes and neighbourhoods and with robust, participatorily-democratic, and transparently published drawing-board models.
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| What does each representative in the Two Houses of Parliament intend to do to adequately increase such enablements of all levels of The People as the essential pre-requisite to people-empowerment ? |
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A. 'Need; 'How', 'Right'.
an individual 'need' arises (a bottle of drinking-water, for instance),
a 'how' it might best be met, must be planned and communally agreed,
a 'right' ('permit') must be obtained from the Community, to apply that how & meet ('satisfy') that need.
B. 'Need', 'How', 'Duty'.
a community-need arises (many bottles of drinking water are being asked for),
a 'how' these bottles may best be provided, must be communally agreed & planned,
a 'duty' [ response-ability, job-commitment, and responsibility (culpability) ] must be agreed and legislated.
Comment:
Any workplace-skill is built by Training, and is contained within only 25% of the individual's Timeframe; whereas
lifeplace-abilities are founded in Education and are contained within the remaining 75% sub-timeframe.
Rationale:
"A person can become te best lawyer or doctor in the World without any education whatsoever;
But can not become the best lawyer or doctor without both the right training and the right job-placements".
Topicality:
Politicians and Schoolteachers declaring that
(') the new Conservative Prime Minister has been elected by The People whereas the previous Labour PM was not elected by The People (').
One has to seriously question those politicians' and teachers' levels of both training and education;
and also to probe the British Nation-State in general for protection of ourselves as subject-people from such a toxic amalgam of incompetence, deceit, and manipulation of the people. |
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"To be political is to have to choose - and what is worse, to have to choose under the worst possible circumstances, when the grounds of choice are not given ...To be political is thus to be 'free' with a vengeance - to be free in the unwelcome sense of being without guiding standards or determining norms yet under ineluctable pressure to act, and to act with deliberation and responsibility as well." (Barber, 2003, page 121).
Also: [Western Democracy needs] (")A Strong Democratic Program for the Revitalisation of Citizenship:
1. A national system of Neighbourhood Assemblies of from one citizen to five thousand, initially having only a comprehension and deliberation function, but later progressing to have legislative competence at neighbourhood and local level as well ("). (Ibid. source p307). |
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Therefore I could not join any party, nor be a supportive constituent.
I apologise that my presentation of some matters on this website are messy and complex;
yet let the reader be assured that every entry is factually-argued, or believed to be true and morally-responsible;
and that over the days and weeks to come these entries will be prioritised, sorted, and made more presentable for the reader to both comprehend and work with, and will also begin to be relevantly referenced to other published writing, for instance to any Article from the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights,
or partly-linked to such contexts or narrow particulars as appear in the closing paragraph of 'Democracy: a beginner's guide', wherein David Beetham says that (") The future of democracy...depends on ourselves (he People), because of the deeply entrenched compromise between the People and The Powerful that always favours The Powerful and can only be countervailed by a strong People(").
Beetham's very fine book about Democracy and its wider contexts falls a little short in its closing paragraph, especially in the closing sentence:
"That countervailing force is an informed and alert citizen body, active at all levels of public life", which would have rung a more resonant note towards citizenry proactivity with a more specific wording, such as
"That balancing force needs to be an informed and alert citizen body, active at all levels of governance, and of both public and private economics and life".
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1245F140510 Subject: The British Peoples' Unconscious Behavioural-Message about their Own Governance and Abilities, May 2010
A: Pre-Election:
Constitutionally, legislatively, and by force-of-governance/educational/popular-habit, Britain has never become a Democracy, but at best has only ever been a notionally Three-Party State posing as a Democracy but in fact-of-governance been a One-Party Top-Down-Directive Powerocracy.
The reason for this longstanding and still prevalent British governance failure and sham is evident from a number of factors, seven of which are:
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The British citizen has no progressive governance-enablements to embrace into his/her own
Citizenship & life;and has no equal voice since among 60 million others equal speaking-time
calculates to only two seconds once every four years.
The “MP –Constituency Link” is ineffective, existing only minimally; and then only for supportive members of
that MP’s Party. De facto, “Constituency Link” is a manipulative political-fantasy.
1b The British citizen has no right to serious discussion and publication of his/her vital-need, serious question or constructive-submission, neither during nor between elections/referendums.
1c If the citizen has a right to equal membership of a non-governmental Governance Association, s/he
can not exercise it because there are no such associations locally available and affordable throughout Britain.
1d The British citizen’s governance-power is less than one minute every four years, during which s/he
may mark one and only one erasable pencil cross, for one and only one of a short list of persons
none of whom may be truly representative or advocative of his/her needs & hows, serious questions
and constructive-submissions, and the British constitutional-naming of which voting-system is more
akin to dog and horse racing than to a democratic-selection process, “First Past The Post”; and the ensuing practical effect of which is of a One Party Top-Down dictatorially-directive State.
1e The British citizen has no equal participation right in any other of Britain’s constituted, legislated and practically
provisioned and secured governance pathways.
For instance the wording of a Petition is overwhelmingly finalised by one person or by a small
oligarchical few before it is published for signature by the citizen who, even if s/he might agree 100%
with the one-way directed wording of the petition, and being only an isolated one
among 60 million other citizens, may never see nor hear that such a Petition is available for perusal
and for signing.
1f The British Parliamentary Information Office advises that the citizen has only one governance
Representative, and that there is no constitutional nor legislative requirement upon that sole
representative to even acknowledge a citizen’s or a constituent’s input concerning vital-needs,
serious governance/real-life questions, and constructive-submissions
1g Neither does the British citizen have a right to faithful & affordable publication of his/her vital-need,
serious question, or constructive-submission such that any or all of the other 60 million British
citizens/constituents may peruse it and return comment to it.
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