Hi, responding to the original article from 2006! I don't get to do that very often. I can see your grandfathers drift and definitely agree (in 2013 LOL) that any checks or balances on poor legislation would be good. Poor legislation seems to be the norm nowadays unfortunately. However, my idea (although I'm surely not the only one with it) is to move closer to towards the digital town hall with many mini referenda and a ban on Party Politics before and during elections. Coalitians of interest among Independents would form an incoming government over a 2-6 week period. I believe rightly or wrongly that the Integrity and Character of candidates is far more important than the highly generalised policies of political parties. I would go so far as to call political parties evil, although possibly necessary evils.

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