Continuing Brendan O’Neill’s theme about the reduction of politics to the question of how efficiently politicians can tick the ‘democracy’ box, Simon Jenkins picks up on the calls for fewer MPs and councillors:
“The difference is that most democracies have many tiers of representation on which voters can vent their rage. The Germans run almost constant [...]
Posts on ‘June 3rd, 2009’
Reductio ad absurdum
Human beings
A short follow-up to yesterday’s post on politicians who are ….. er …. politicians.
Conor Ryan – a senior New Labour veteran says: “MPs Wanted: No human beings need apply.”
“What we are now likely to get as a result of the relentless assault of the last month are humourless self-righteous sorts who are, of course, incapable [...]
A blog about representative democracy, social media and a conversational politics. How will peer-to-peer communications change local democracy? How is representation changing? 
