My understanding is “affecting of – or attempting to affect – the actions/decisions of the public sector by the private sector“. Clumsy I know but it’s a starting point for discussion. Continue reading →
Goodbye Gordon
In what must surely be the final week of his reign, I am sorry that I am too busy to spare the time to watch him crash and burn in detail. So I’ll just wish him farewell. Don’t go away mad, don’t go away sad – just go away.
More freedom of speech?
What about Karl Winn then – Mr Popular or what!
Thought-Police take on the BNP
After a judge ruled that its constitution could discriminate against non-white people on Friday, the British National Party was banned from accepting any new members. ”I hold that the BNP are likely to commit unlawful acts of discrimination in the terms on which they are prepared to admit persons to membership under their constitution”, said Judge Collins. Continue reading →
Is Obama just bluffing?
Is it just a co-incidence that, now Obama can no longer force through legislation, he’s brought up the issues to deal with the banks? With little chance of getting through, the little people that funded half of his election costs (with their dollar or two) will not feel so aggrieved and the big people who funded the other half will get what they paid for. And if (when?) it fails to become law – it can always be blamed on the nasty Republicans. Continue reading →
No-one to win next UK General Election!
The newly-formed “no-one” Party (New One-Off NonEntities) look set to take the country over in the forthcoming General Election in the UK. In pretty much every previous election, more people have voted for no-one than for any other party. No-one has noticed this – and so it has formed a party so that voters can register their preference. At the launch today, no-one said that “We are the party that gives a shit. Everybody knows that no-one gives a shit – so why not vote for us?” Continue reading →
Why can’t we vote for “none of the above” ?
Simon (one of our founder members) has started a petition here.
“We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to amend the general election ballot paper to include an ‘abstention’ option in addition to the named local candidates.”
Submitted by Simon Mortimer – Deadline to sign up by: 05 May 2010 – Signatures: 41 to date. Continue reading →
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CONDENSED MANIFESTO REV 0.1
There has been a descent amount of debate and contribution such that we think it is worth while now to skim the cream off the top, boil that down and see what that looks like.
What we are trying to capture here is only the really important society changing stuff.
Detailed debate can continue under the individual manifestos but this space is to capture the fundamental policies that are badly needed.
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