Re:That's it (Score 1)

Alternatively we could *fix* the UK. Perhaps the time is right for a new party with new ideas about how to run the country. I'm not just talking about policies, the actual mechanisms of government.

The technology is there to set up a completely transparent government. All the information is available to everyone, and everyone with an opinion can vote on every issue by means of a public forum.

Imagine a government where any citizen could have their say and be moderated in a similar fashion to slashdot, leaving a concise summary of the points for/against and how many people concur with a given viewpoint, allowing a truer democracy.

This kind of system could either get voted away, or completely opened up so that anyone can access the information and the system can be used to keep politicians in check more than spy on citizens.

The old argument against a system like this was that it would take too much time to collate viewpoints and no definitive decisions would be reached, but with the internet, the issues would doubtless be dealt with faster than calling as assembly in parliament and thrashing out the issue could ever take place.

Revolution anyone? (Shotgun me as Prime Minister)