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05DEC23 V0.2 the650 is now wote.uk
After a week of especially unedifying party politics and negative nonsense from Labour, a friend of this blog, Peter Dawe, is asking ...
"what if we had an outbreak of common sense and suspended all politics until the accumulation of outstanding incomplete projects and promises is sorted out?"
His initial proposition is engagingly simple: What if we identified 650 "top people" people with no political axes to grind, and asked them to stand for parliament at the next election?
They stand on a manifesto of NO POLITICAL CHANGE, just be there to fix the stuff our politicians never get around to doing... for starters...
- Match the number of people skilled to do essential jobs
- Match what the NHS treats with the resources available
- Match housing
- Match our energy resources with our needs
- Match what is illegal and regulated with the ability to enforce - this may well result in a massive simplification of arcane law
- Match defence commitments to our ability and appetite to deliver
And of course fix the pot-holes, rather than reconfigure road layout, yet again.
The 650 - a perfectly catchy and suitable name - would for the most part be Doers i.e. engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs, artists and proven managers. They would not be the same failed politicians that get recycled between elections.
All of a sudden, the charade of party yah-suck-boo politics would be seen for what it is.
Many EU countries have thrown out their traditional parties, and replaced them with new ones that do the same thing. Perhaps the UK could replace ours with something better!
More at www.the650.uk now renamed to... www.wote.uk www.wote.uk
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