The Daily Mash sums up a week in Local Government quite nicely.
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Posts on ‘February 6th, 2009’
Friday post
Better than sitting in a draughty library, providing a surgery that no-one attends…
Here’s Wandsworth’s Councillor James Cousins on the value of interactivity for councillors:
“What is surprising is not just how many local people were tweeting, but how many were eager to engage and use Twitter to communicate with their councillor. While I often sit in a draughty library with no-one attending my surgery it is quite the [...]
Proportional voting and crime
On proportional systems of voting, and how they can have a direct impact upon the way that social issues are addressed:
“Proportional representation correlates with more welfare, reduced corruption, less crime, and a host of other social benefits. The need for consensus among a number of groups with drastically different agendas forces government to be more [...]
A blog about representative democracy, social media and a conversational politics. How will peer-to-peer communications change local democracy? How is representation changing? 
