Like your thinking Graham but should have taken your ideas to their logical conclusion. You would then have seen that your basic premise is almost Leveller and they are a downright Socialist grab at redistribution.
No - we can't take the money that has been hard-earned over many generations, even in the name of better democracy. However there are mechanisisms we can use to get the same effect without adding to the burden of our most respectable "citizens" (that parvenu Thatcher has a lot to answer for!). I suggest additionnal votes for business interests (and we can add seats for long standing Corporations such as the City), and for those who's interests are more landed we can create extra seats (and votes) for sompe of the more exclusive clubs such as the Oxbridge universities. Then our democracy will truly be representative for the great men of our nation, and by bearing the cost from general taxation the "little man" can also be a full participant in our great Commonwealth. Damian (call me Winnie....) On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Graham White <gcwhite2...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > > Been catching up on the backlog of e-mails on electoral reform but am > rather dissappointed at how timid the proposals are. > > I mean in this post-modern, post-industrial, globalised, "we're all in it > together" society is it really right and proper that some knuckle-dragging > Milwall supporter should have as much say in the governance of this great > Monarchy of ours as David Beckham or Sir Fred Goodwin? > > My proposal is this: every British subject will have one vote (to keep > things fair) but then (and this is the brilliant bit) anyone can buy as many > extra votes as they like! > > This will ensure that the people who have the most stake in society: > bankers, hedge fund traders, professional footballers, Jonathan Ross, > Bullingdon Club members, Bernie Ecclestone etc will quite rightly have more > say than those with no stake in society: single mothers, benefits > scroungers, disability malingerers, scousers, economic migrants etc. > > I need help in firming up this idea a bit as I'm not sure if we should have > a fixed price vote, say £1,000 per vote, which would mean that a > fine upstanding member of society such as John Terry would be able to buy > 100 votes with a weeks wages. Would we have different price bands for > different elections? Say £1,000 for a general election, £500 for local > elections and 5p for a Euro Election (as no-one votes in these anyway). > Betty what would be a reasonable price for a vote in the Scottish MSP > elections? > > Or should there be a market in votes? We could call it the vote exchange. > Think of all the valuable wealth creating activities the clever financial > people could come up with - secondary vote trading, vote shorting, > collateralised vote trading. Just think you could borrow money to buy > thousands of votes all backed up by valuable US mortgage debts or Irish > property. > > Also should there be an upper limit to the number of votes available or > should the Government just print as many votes as required. Clearly it > wouldn't be fair to ask council staff to count all these extra votes so we > would have bloc votes, say 1000 votes per ballot paper. To save time the > ballot papers could also be filled in in advance as anyone buying votes is > going to be voting for the right party. > > Obviously, as we live in a globalised world, non-British subjects would be > able to buy votes for use in British elections, as I'm sure that Russian > oligarchs or the Bahraini royal family would use their votes wisely for the > benefit of our Monarchy. And Ken Bates would be able to vote, God bless the > saviour of Leeds United! > > All the money raised from this could go to cutting the deficit. > > Simples > > Graham White > _______________________________________________ > Leedslist mailing list > Info and options: > http://mailman-new.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > To unsubscribe, email leedslist-unsubscr...@gn.apc.org > > MARCHING ON TOGETHER (There's it) > _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman-new.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email leedslist-unsubscr...@gn.apc.org MARCHING ON TOGETHER (There's it)
