Comments on: Minarets, trade offs and direct democracy http://blog.localdemocracy.org.uk/2009/12/02/minarets-trade-offs-and-direct-democracy/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Promoting innovation and a conversational local politics Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:58:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Paul Evans http://blog.localdemocracy.org.uk/2009/12/02/minarets-trade-offs-and-direct-democracy/comment-page-1/#comment-1006 Paul Evans Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:43:45 +0000 http://blog.localdemocracy.org.uk/?p=1827#comment-1006 So you'd prefer Direct Democracy to our current settlement then? Try California! http://blog.localdemocracy.org.uk/2009/09/18/too-much-democracy/ So you’d prefer Direct Democracy to our current settlement then?

Try California! http://blog.localdemocracy.org.uk/2009/09/18/too-much-democracy/

]]> By: 'rough-trade' http://blog.localdemocracy.org.uk/2009/12/02/minarets-trade-offs-and-direct-democracy/comment-page-1/#comment-1004 'rough-trade' Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:41:44 +0000 http://blog.localdemocracy.org.uk/?p=1827#comment-1004 If 'democracy' means anything, it means not having to agree with apologists of the naked pursuit of power. So the people dont want minarets? Too bad, swallow it up, because if you think the present representative democracy is working better, then explain how Blair got away with the Iraq war, how cheyney allowed torture as a means of PR, and so on? And btw, todays front-line state is fully equipped to allow 'direct democracy'; we have the technology, we have BB, the net, and too much tv to be good for us. Dont you hate it when quangos monopolise far more than their share of policymaking? Dont you think people only enter politics seeking a way of making money? Do you think PR will come soon? Ha! So its 'crude direct democracy' ? it still seems a better way of making policy than the one where 'PM' goes into room with 'Pres' and they agree to violate another country's citizens 'cos, well pres was the representative democrat wasnt he? And what about the impossibility of getting your 'representative' to eg vote against war? And if you poll a countys citizens and they want the death pen, too bad for your liberal sentiments, thats democracy. We might even find citizens will educate themselves in some of the issues of the day and actually participate rather then thinking all polititians are gr**dy w^&*ers. If ‘democracy’ means anything, it means not having to agree with apologists of the naked pursuit of power.
So the people dont want minarets? Too bad, swallow it up, because if you think the present representative democracy is working better, then explain how Blair got away with the Iraq war, how cheyney allowed torture as a means of PR, and so on?
And btw, todays front-line state is fully equipped to allow ‘direct democracy’; we have the technology, we have BB, the net, and too much tv to be good for us.
Dont you hate it when quangos monopolise far more than their share of policymaking? Dont you think people only enter politics seeking a way of making money? Do you think PR will come soon? Ha!

So its ‘crude direct democracy’ ? it still seems a better way of making policy than the one where ‘PM’ goes into room with ‘Pres’ and they agree to violate another country’s citizens ‘cos, well pres was the representative democrat wasnt he? And what about the impossibility of getting your ‘representative’ to eg vote against war?
And if you poll a countys citizens and they want the death pen, too bad for your liberal sentiments, thats democracy. We might even find citizens will educate themselves in some of the issues of the day and actually participate rather then thinking all polititians are gr**dy w^&*ers.

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