Comment on Only 1 out of over 740,000 UK Parliament petitions has ever directly succeeded in changing government policy

mrdown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Tweak@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Sack all the politicians, they fail at the key part of their jobs: representing the voters. Instead, they represent the biggest donors to the party LLC.

  Let everyone vote on everything an MP votes on themselves, directly. We don’t need a “representative” to travel to Westminster and vote on our behalf, communication technology makes them obsolete.

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• rah@hilariouschaos.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Hope one day we will reach real democracy

  Are you sure you hope to reach real democracy? Because in a real democracy, you don’t just sit on your ass hoping for things to change.

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  • mrdown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Why i want to and yes to achievw it you don’t just sit on your ass hoping for things to change.

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