Part II: Correction by the People

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Preface

If Parliament disappeared in smoke, what would happen to its constantly-claimed sovereignty? Nothing! Because we, the People, are the full and Ultimate Parliament! The democratic system is ours. So, who else should monitor and improve it?

A back-up and cross-checking System is now opened called Parallel Democracy. Also named Super-Democracy. Parallel, for it runs simply and separately beside the present system, without damaging it. It innovates not legislates. It focuses what goes unused: Electors’ intelligence and citizenship. It is Super-, over and above, as its job is to regain rule by the People. It is higher in its standards, exceptional in purpose.

It trumps the EU’s ‘supra’-rule, which is democratically-illegal, shaped to prevent real electoral control. Because, by definition in a democracy, whatever diminishes or outflanks democratic control is illegal and is the duty of each member of society to both oppose and overcome. Parliament must share exclusive rule with the People. Gaining much. The Parallel System is a new way to organize wisely and hold restrained mastery.

Long ago, Parliament was developed to authorize taxes, and then to control the king. At first, for the rich. Later, for the People. Parallel Democracy is to curb Parliament, replace the EU, end misuse of electoral authority by representatives, get excellence in politics and trade, rule money creation, grip taxation from start to finish, build wealth with responsibility and duty, optimize democrats individually, innovate intensively in public matters, re-establish lost liberties, raise standards across the board and remodel the rudderless West. These twelve comprise electoral “rule” today.

 

Public Scope

How do Electors regain what is theirs under democracy? First, by their own Charter. Only a counter-Charter can nullify the Charter of Fundamental Human Rights, with associated documents: the Constitutional Treaty, laws, and institutions. They were all designed to circumvent the People’s authority. To block their choices and control.

In response, the People must require Parliament to honour their superior sovereignty in landmark law, making the State their employee. They have to assert their decisive, collective authority in politics and the economy, in new ways.

The following Proposals launched in procession, truly shake official power fundamentally, and build our own, lastingly.

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Twelve Proposals

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The Compendium (P1)

We need new ways to take part in, and exercise our power and responsibilities in, democracy. Else, others fix our future. We need an on-line “House”, to confer wisely and productively at any time. Here called the Compendium.

The Compendium is for vigorous citizenship, ingenuity and innovation. It harvests our finest suggestions, insights, know-how, offered talents, services and spare resources. It runs discussions, investigations, debates, polls, courses, channels and projects. Explained by Proposals 3-12.

Parliament legislates. The Compendium innovates. To re-empower us.

The Compendium is feather-light in cost. Making proper use of free Internet services. Creatively, it may start often with apparently nothing. That being a skill many of us must re-learn.

It complements Parliament and the Representative System.

The old meaning of compendium is: a collection of books or best thoughts. (The Latin roots mean weighing together or evaluating. The new meaning is a collection of Electors’ talents and best ingenuity. A new institution: to gather and use them for personal, mutual or public benefit. It provides space for wiser counsels. It backs-up our Representative System.

The existence of the Compendium will make Parliament raise its standards! A permanently-upgraded Commons, in turn, will help keep the Compendium on its toes! Electors can no longer afford to tolerate second and third-best. The media will have to upgrade, too.

The Compendium challenges us all to reach for higher standards and helps us do so. (See P11)

 

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The Super-Commission (P2)

A guiding body is required to help bring all connected with Parallel (or Super-) Democracy into being. Not to boss, but enable. Who, when, where and how, is now open for discussion.

Its function will be to ensure no bullying government or powerful interests, can manipulate the Parallel Democratic system, whether using public money or their own. For, they will try!

The title Super-Commission will stick up the EU Commissioners’ noses. Being loftier than theirs. But, we never appointed them by election. Or, ever, agreed or accepted they rule us! We disown them!

[The new British Supreme Court overlords, too! Added without public agreement.]

 

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The (3-part) Ultimate-Service Union (P3)

Here the purpose is to apply our little-used power as Electors, Taxpayers and Customers.

1. As Electors, we are Democracy’s watchdog, with millions of eyes and teeth. To get fair play, warn, bite, grip and recover stolen property and defend our territory fearlessly. The drift of EU legislation is slowly to make us toothless.

If we organize as Electors Together, we are more than a Citizens’ Watch! We use the intelligence of these islands and beyond. We can design and test better solutions. Being as inventive as we need be. We get a unique forum and creative ‘laboratory’.

2. As Taxpayers: We pay and stay dumb. MPs fail on the job. Billions and trillions are too great to entrust to them, officials and financiers alone! Our role is to check and oversee where our money goes! To get wealth-earning and tax-gathering made easier. If we form Taxpayers Together, we will oblige the Treasury and HM Revenue & Customs to run an exquisite tax system or be replaced.

We work: to be freer of the State. Revenue is ours, never its or theirs. “No taxation without representation”, an 18th century concept, today changes to: No spending of taxes without transparency! Understood. Agreed in advance. Not, after the money has disappeared.

3. As Customers: We discipline all trade. Businesses and trade unions have long organized. We did not. “Consumers” exist to swallow product! But we can decide to buy together, complain creatively together and switch support together. We can care together, too. Customer-care’ is really 2-way! Who better to help train staff to perfection than customers? At a fair fee. As Customers Together, we can shake-up businesses, organizations, trade-unions and government. Then, quite correctly, “the Customer is king”!

So, the clout of one part of, or the combined, new Union is persuasive! It has this dynamic formula:

Electors Together + Taxpayers Together + Customers Together = huge political and economic leverage for improvement.

The three parts counter-balance Government, Business, and Trade-Unions. The Ultimate-Service Union amounts to a sharp trident of residual authority. Each prong is to coax or prod sluggish or bothersome officials and systems. Securing our goals by more, let us say, penetrating methods! The three acting internationally, amplify our authority. Dissipated or lost support, political and economic, can be regained. Conferences and added services, some free, would self-finance.

The Ultimate Service Union may become a trading company, a conglomerate, a multi-national, even partly a trades-union! (A big mistake made by most trades-unions today is they decline to trade! To create products, services and jobs. To back-up members. To reinvent their role.)

A better name may be found. “Ultimate Service” emphasizes its core purpose and creative character.

These add major forums for discussion. Do they detract from Parliament? Yes! The People, owners of “Britain plc.”, regain the chairmanship of their own enterprise! Betrayal of democracy has major consequences! These, restrained ones, are constructive and benign.

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COP (The ‘Clear-Out Party’): P4

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COP is another way for Electors to police politics. To ‘arrest and remove’ the dud Parties, now bankrupt of democratic principle and solutions. Primarily and long-term, COP means Correction Of Politics.

Our main Parties talk of “a democratic deficit”. (Yet, they created it! By placing the EU above us!) And, of them “regaining trust”. But, such robbers cannot be trustworthy reformers! We need a “None-of-the-above” Party, on stand-by if others fail. Able to help purge the system.

At present, the State, the unauthorized EU, and three distrusted parties rule, fix the rules, and build power. Democracy is whatever they say it is. We, the People, are kept behind bars by their system. We “rule” in dictionary definitions of democracy only.

COP belongs to the Parallel System. It is a back-up Party for all electors to use. As well as their usual one!

It asks all constituents to vet its candidates, shape its policies and appoint its leaders.

COP Primaries test candidates and explore options. The first opens-up subjects. The second looks at further ideas and faults. Policies are shaped in a chain of Primaries, in groups of constituencies, arranged by local timetables. A number of conferences stretch and help candidates and, finally, settle the General Election manifesto.

COP’s supporters are our new ‘working class’, from all incomes and groups. Grafters, respectable, loyal, self-improving, aiming to be self-reliant. Mr, Mrs, Master and Miss reasonable Everyman. Now landed in huge debt by politicians and financiers.

The ignored majority, furious about the EU and betrayal by the Parties about it. Who are disregarded on immigration numbers with its consequence of a new Bristol-sized city annually. All positive, responsible, frugal elderly, disgusted by abuse of our laws, customs and treasury.

The cool-headed young, who think deeply before they speak, who build their future carefully. Parents dedicated to getting the world’s best in training for their children. All who know lifelong pursuit of learning is vital to our future.

Those who want far more freedom to run their lives. Despising political correctness. Who are British first, by character and attitude, not nationalism or from a Government piece of paper. Who blow the whistle on exploiters from every background. Who are problem-solvers rather than complainers.

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COP enables frustrated Conservative, Labour, Liberal-Democrat, UKIP or Green voters, to do political business together.

It will baffle other parties, initially, as it is a new political animal. A servant of all Electors and even of other Parties? Unheard of! Because power is not its first objective. Its driving purpose is to make the workings of democracy superb, as Electors instruct.

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Could UKIP (United Kingdom Independence Party) succeed? It’s vote in the last General Election was 3.8%. Its by-election results are not good enough. It caters well for disgruntled Conservatives, but less clearly so for others. The media mistreat it. So, probably not alone!

What seems needed is a parallel, “more left-wing” anti-EU party to attract that part of the electorate, that is also broader-based. Which, from launch, intends eventual coalition, for government. It aims to add whatever UKIP lacks. It increases the prospects of UKIP without being asked, entirely based on goodwill. Who else is there around of integrity?

Without a single member or policy, as yet, this appears crazy! But, such is the hunger for honest politics, the anger felt against the three disloyal Parties and resentment against the EU, especially at this time of economic damage, that it may not be impossible at all! If the blockages preventing UKIP’s advance are removed, many would vote for it. Because electors want winners.

Meanwhile, let UKIP take whatever it likes of The Electors Charter, even if it is only encouragement, and of COP.

Conceivably UKIP, by agreement, could test-run several candidates alongside, in some COP Primaries, to establish who is best to stand at the Election, to devastate the main disloyal Parties. Avoiding many lost deposits. COP could offer the new boost needed in British politics.

Who would like to be among the founding members?

Goodwill and finance is there, across Britain, for a talented, new force. Growth could be fast on-line. Funds from abroad may be offered. Such must be kept wholly apart from any resources earmarked for British politics!

COP would place and keep Electors in the driving seat. A coalition of the best minds to meet the tsunami of challenges, can rise through the middle, win seats, take power and shock the system!

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We have to develop a better Representative System. Outline suggestions are below. More ideas are invited.

Around 2016-2017, well before a General Election, in Primaries, we select up to 10 candidates from all parties and independents. Publicity-seekers and vote-wasters are eliminated first. At the General Election, we elect the top 3, 4 or even 5 to work as a team. Each is our MP, in rotation. They share one seat in Parliament, and the pay, based on our votes. So, a candidate winning 30% of the vote gets 30% of time there. Five MPs cost the same as one. Each is our representative. For we chose them all! We decide how many share-MPs we want, locally. We could fix pay-scales. Perhaps a cut! Together, we set Election Day. If we need to. We issue a 3, 4, or 5-year licence of power, perhaps. We re-set key rules. We can vote on, say, twenty national or local issues a year. The five MPs, chosen for outstanding merit, two or three being women, must cooperate or individuals may be disqualified. They share duties and the growing load. They get a home life. Appear human. Each has another job or possibly several, building ‘real-life’ skills. Or just the job as MP. Annual voting would reinforce voter supremacy and make citizenship skills personal. Alternatives need testing. Voters in different constituencies can propose and test their own ideas via a COP assembly.

Local politics would revive and be of national value. A true “polis” could develop: a community of mature, responsible, working people, lending their power, resources and support. Talent in the House of Commons could be five-times greater. We get a participating democracy, rather than the substituting one we have now. We rule what is ours by inheritance and pay for. Time-share would shake-up Parliament and limit the power of Party whips. We gain ‘proportional representation’ on our terms, not for the favour of any middle party. Citizens regain democratic authority.

Having a ‘normal’ job, arranging absence, and being a share-MP, of course, would be difficult. Dependent on the share of the vote. Solutions can be found.

Parliament could be in session 300 days, not 165. It could shift-work. We could select Party leaders. By-passing Electors would no longer be tolerated. There is an argument for us selecting the Speaker of the House of Commons, too. We could confirm Prime Ministers and Cabinet members. Parallel Democracy gains leverage over State power.

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How dare the Coalition aim to cut MPs by 10%, and so representation! Then, put that power into their own pockets!

The three main Parties locked us, their Electors, into the EU. And so lost legitimacy! Their vaunted “liberal-democracy” really means being liberal with democracy! Why should they keep monopoly in Parliament? Or exist? The Liberal-Democrats deserve to be wiped out and re-formed. The Labour Party has to regain roots, after burial and resurrection. The Conservative Party, two-faced about the EU, needs to be put down as a kindness. Yet, transmogrified.

They need to be stripped by Electors and rebuilt, as it were, as replacement dwellings on adjoining plots. Their future members would move swiftly to superior homes. The rumps of the old Parties would follow the corrective paths Electors take or fade away. In a nutshell, three brand-new versions of the main Parties would gain legitimacy and capture the field. Fostered by COP! COP would then bow out and work in the Parallel System. If the other Parties behave themselves. It is willing to help other Parties, if their members wish. It is a voters’ tool to correct the system. Not chasing power. Re-used in Elections, if needed. Electors shape its referendums and opinion-polls. Its influence would continually be felt.

 

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Three Proposals together

New names signal new attitudes.

• (P5) Suppose we label a replacement Conservative Party Re-invention.
• (P6) The Labour Party, by adding Brains to its name, to represent most working people), can be called Endeavour. Or cheekily, Enterprise.
  
• (P7) Liberal-Democrats might come to deserve the name The Bulldog Party. And, be no longer trapped in the middle.

Each may grow rapidly with the united aid of the electorate and with the generosity of COP. Showing what Parallel Democracy can add. The current Parties, each deep in debt, need recycling, not refinancing! Then burying.

These project names oblige each to tackle their worst deficiencies. (Conservatives): credible change, to go with traditional continuity. (New Labour): real enterprise with hard effort, rather than an initial-association with class-struggle, sweat and childbirth. (Liberal-Democrat): reliability rather than liberality with the People’s sovereignty and and money. And like the others, transferring the essentials of home-rule without authority. The reborn Party that is fastest off-the-blocks could win powerful advantage.

The Clear-Out Party could invite its members to join these Parties. Twin membership increases electoral leverage.

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Replace the EU by a Commonwealth called “Super-Democracy” (P8)

Explaining more of the 2nd title of the new System, (Preface to Part II)

 

The EU held its exclusive Constitutional Convention of minor politicians in 2002-4, to fix “A Constitution for Europe”. The then 340,000,000 Electors were given no say: no ruling or corrective part! Reason enough for its dismissal!

Super-Democracy provides another identity. The name defines both its direction and terms of citizenship. It can only be developed safely by Electors. EU robber-barons are not reliable architects!  The aim is to be the finest democracy in the world. Not narrowly-European, but a Europe-Plus. A flexible commonwealth extending as far as Electors agree.

The People of Europe are politically and economically sovereign. States are not! The EU lacks democratic origin: the original permission to exist. No “it” (or substituted ‘them’) can ever be sovereign! The notion of State sovereignty has been long asserted by politicians. But, repeating the untruth never makes it true. Thieves never own stolen property. A legal fiction is solely that! Useful in some things. But, as ultimate authority, in practice reversing true democracy, it is lethal nonsense! As is the EU. It shields the political elite. It is, potentially, a cover for the worst of crooks and crimes.

From the outset, Super-Democracy is owned and controlled by Electors, as the EEC, EC, and EU should have been! It has 2 hemispheres for a political brain, Representative and Parallel-Democratic, to enhance each other: the one formal, the other inventive. Volunteers design it piece by piece. Proving its right to exist by its submission, it is lent power. The destination is clear. It guarantees the supremacy of citizens. It, with each State, is citizen-dependent. From that flow real accountability by each State, personal privacy from all unnecessary intrusion, simpler home-made law, tiny bureaucracy and freedom to do whatever is superb.

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As a Commonwealth, the People lend, not “pool”, their sovereignty and talents. To help one other. Never for the State to run the pool, to fish for itself! To be common-ly wealth-y. Significantly, ancient Athens reached its zenith while genuine democracy blossomed.

Super-Democracy needs no official authority to begin. For, the People in democracy are the root authority! Like new operating-software, beta-tested till ready, it runs on trial, in parallel. Sometimes  irrelevant, impractical or mistaken. Gold involves much dross. Yet, it can cost a fraction of the vast, deliberately-bewildering, life-sucking, EU structure for citizens to build, run and check. From now, millions of intelligent citizens are invited to design a Commonwealth of States. To raise their politics. Re-creating and repairing them. By right.

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As a System, ‘Super-Democracy’ (or Parallel Democracy) is to help optimize citizens, men and women alike, as well as to discipline government. It becomes an agent and a bailiff service run by Electors for Electors. Governments and bullying organizations meet their match! It could take-on key services, funded from taxation. It could deliver help or punishment by the ton. It is a creative, supporting partner, incorporating the intelligence of the People into their government and beyond it. It is loyal only to those who are loyal. In one sense, Parallel/Super-Democracy is a third major form of democracy in 2,600 years. Only now do we have the technologies to use it as a rejuvenating, political mechanism.

In Europe, 350 million Electors can build the Commonwealth. If they prove insufficient, billions worldwide may advise! (Helpfulness is not limited to those in a democracy!) Some will simplify, correct or adapt legislation. Others will start again. Many will use history to peer into the future. Each can assist.

Democracy is defined as “rule by the People”. The rule covers the design, foundation, development, and later shape of politics. It cannot be by an unelected Commission, outside electoral control. Just as one million zeros equal zero, so do a million invalid EU decisions, regulations, laws and documents in 23 main languages! They prove the Commission’s will to abolish government by the People, by a continent-wide rip-off of electoral power and by nullifying what genuine democracy is, does and for whom.

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Strictly, we have no duty to obey any EU law or court. We deny having given, by Vote, legitimacy to the EU! Its “legal” structure set above ours is a takeover without troops, abetted by our Parliament! We honour the principle of law! We revile all law-breaking! Lawbreakers are no friends of ours. As the Electorate, however, we are compelled by conscience, common-sense and those sovereign rights for which our fathers died, to repel the EU and shake the foundations of Parliament, democratically. We witness how easily politicians defy Electors, distort democracy and make laws that add to their dominance!

Internal EU reform would take lifetimes, during which it would usurp all our roles. Goalposts would be shifted. Laws would be made faster than they can be changed, as now. But, in Super-Democracy the People decide what they permit and design their cross-checking institutions.

Our home, purposes, and destiny are not in the EU but in a Commonwealth that out-classes it and levers it into redundancy.

Note 6: We could leave the EU without delay, according to the Lisbon Treaty.

Note 7: The new EU Bill allows a minister to just state that the transfer of a power to the EU is not significant enough to merit a referendum. Then, an Act of Parliament can transfer more powers! “Broader changes” will be put to a public vote. Or, of course, will never be judged “broad” enough by a minister! This is the unlocking-of-doors to assist further robberies!

 

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United People (UP): P9

The notion

Perhaps the chief merit the United Nations is that it is rarely united. It could be very dangerous, at times, if it was! It represents nation-states. Electors play no part. Many of its members are viciously opposed to democracy. It is a governments club. A gathering of the political dons.

We may need a counterbalance for it, which we can call United People. Democratic and secular, belonging exclusively to the Parallel Democratic System, for reasons of security and independence, and a capstone for it. Though, without the other Proposals being active, and their experience gained, it is pie-in–the-sky. A long-term notion, though necessary, if only for the direction it provides.

As with all such structures, the initial question is one of leadership. Who would run it? How would they be accountable? Where would it be located? In one or several places? Could it be better dispersed across the Internet? Is not the Internet a United People already? If it is, it is already under attack for its freedom and ability to bypass and surprise governments! How is the Internet and a United People to be kept free? First answers can raise as many questions as they solve. Other milestones have to be reached in advance.

Certainly, if United People came into being, it would need to be anti-”world-government” and then anti-”one world currency”. Because both are avidly sought by top politicians and financiers to grasp absolute power and wealth, using disasters to advance and to capture both. Both are anathema to the democratic system, lacking choice, electoral control and corrective opposition.

It may be far better to work on projects that may become natural parts of such a United People. That is the method of the next Proposal, No. 10: to select, experimentally, just one important piece of the puzzle.

Each international body gets above itself. UP would need cross-checking by Parallel and Representative Democracy also.

The systems of Representative and Parallel Democracy should be as two arms of the same body. However, Representative Democracy will attempt to devalue the new form. As current executive, it has wealth by taxes, stolen sovereignty, and often dangerous ambition. It gives itself, by legal alchemy, the crown of pretended supremacy. To annul the superior title-claim of the People. On the other hand, its criticisms will be welcome. After all, the Parallel System could not reasonably dish out criticism and not expect the same back. Nevertheless, the job of the Parallel System is to find and adopt more creative ways of progressing than in current party politics, which is a sincere, spirited conversation of the willfully deaf.

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Concentrated power

The purpose throughout The Electors Charter is to initiate new solutions to the misuse of great power.

Totalitarian power must ever be attacked. For example, the latest computer chips can make a slave of every individual. Every person with the money-chip in a bank card (or implanted), becomes lastingly at risk. Banked money can be taxed or plundered. Livelihoods can be switched off. The system is “proven and in part-use”. (USA, 2006)  See Aaron Russo’s [From] “Freedom to Fascism”  at 1hr.16 minutes in. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1656880303867390173#

“Ah! A conspiracy theory!”, some will comment. But, political tricksters and other criminals get us to aid their evasions. To them, questioners, police, witnesses, victims and lawyers are conspiracy theorists!

A “conspiracy” is when two or more plan a crime or an act that could damage us. It is vital to cross-check. A “theory”, at least, shows alternative thinking is being done! When facts are withheld and official silence about crucial matters is maintained. The trail of doubtful evidence must be followed and apparent wrongdoing fully pursued. As will be found particularly relevant in the next Proposal, (P10).

As Electors, Taxpayers and Customers, we have to police politics! It is our job to ask fundamental, effective questions and to get truly-satisfying answers. We act as stewards. For the sake of our lives, freedoms, peace, our children and every being and thing on Planet Earth. It is the job of our paid, elected servants to provide convincing answers, without prevarication. Or, get out of office. Or expect prosecution.

“But, no law exists to ensure they get prosecuted!” you say. Exactly! That is the point of creating Parallel Democracy as a system. To correct Representative Democracy from the inside will take endless time and money. We must use modern ‘power tools’, greater skill and far improved attitudes. Self-criticism being vital.

 

 

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