AV Reform

david — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:51:49 +0000

I was reading an article about the AV (Alternative Vote) reform debate today that amused me . AV, First Past The Post (FPTP) does it really matter? It seems a bit of a joke, to me, debating which is better. Their both terrible terrible systems. The thing is, AV is probably worse than the system we have now. Like now, small parties (or even largish) have little chance of making an inroad into parliament and under AV this will be made worse. But, this is what it seems the Lib Dems gave up everything for; their members, their voters, for a system that will probably not help them much at any rate

Proportional Representation would have been the best one, of course. Well, better, hardly democracy because after all we live in a Capitalist system and democracy isn’t compatible with that. It’s strange how people can think we live in a democracy when we have little of the choices that actually matter. We have no democratic control over our working lives, unless you’re rich, you can only sell yourself for a fraction of what you make and be dictated to. Sure you can start your own business but that takes a lot of time and money which most of us don’t have. You don’t have the freedom to distribute your opinion on a wide scale unless you’re rich and can afford to own a newspaper or TV channel. And even the supposed choices we have, do we? Who get into power time and time again? Parties that are totally out of sync with public opinion, who are rich men, on the most part, who don’t have the majorities interests at heart. Just take the cabinet. Their mostly multi millionaires. Look at the cuts, which ever way you look at them the working and middle classes are hit the worst and the rich get corporation tax cuts and bailouts. We must fight for a new workers party, and break free from the cycle of voting for the lesser of two evils…

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david — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:04:22 +0000

For many years I have been a ‘closet’ Socialist, in that I agreed with all the ideas but never really did anything other then sometimes engage people in a discussion about Socialism. However, recently I have felt like I want to get much more involved, and feel like I am trying to change the world for the better! So I joined the Socialist Party, and recently attended Socialism 2008, a weekend of Lectures, Rallies and Discussion about Socialism. It was a lot of fun. Below are a few of the highlights IMO:

Mark Steel talking at the final Rally about forming a new workers Party:

Part One:

Part Two:

Highlights from the Rally the first day, the camera work is rather appalling…

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