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Interview with Les the Labourer: How is New Zealand run?
Interview with Les is best listened to here, with the text Les the Labourer gets interviewed about politics, democracy, power, the people in New Zealand “Don’t trust politicians” “All done behind closed doors” “Things need to change” “Nothing good about the way things are done” “Not a lot of good happens” “Those in control make…
What is Direct Democracy and why have it?
It’s always a good idea to start out with a definition of things so we are all clear. First of all, the bigger question is.. “What is democracy?” Everybody knows what democracy is don’t they that’s something that we learn at school and from our parents, it’s people having a say… Right? No. Democracy is…
Launch of political party
Today we launched a non political, leaderless, political party with only one policy. It can’t really get any simpler in terms of concept. “ASK THE PEOPLE” Every political party throughout the world has leaders just dying to control and tell us how it will be, ultimately serving their own agendas and egos and not the…
The impact of Direct Democracy on a country
Direct Democracy is primarily about sovereignty- Sovereignty for the people to decide and sovereignty for the nation to decide together, as the sum of all it’s residents. It’s a big change from where we are at right now. Right now, ordinary residents have no legal position to be directly influencing any public decisions. Even in…
Fundamental political governance problem
We think that a key fundamental problem with parliament and almost every politically empowered organisation lies in separating decision making from influence. Both concepts are necessary but it’s essential the processes are separated. Influence is everything up for discussion: it involves literally all of the ideas, the revelation of concepts and revelation of information. It…