Objectives: To allow every seat to collaborate and contribute to policy making and running of the council / state / country. Whilst allowing the UP to focus on International Relations.
- Leverages Proportional Representation
- Power to the People
- Does not have any of its own Policies – other than to give a voice to ALL parties
- Every vote counts
- The “Opposition” actually makes the Policy – with a preference for the “Considerable Minorities” – ie Middle Way
- Reduce major swings from “Left to Right and back again”
- Temper “Fringe Party’ antics
- The UP focuses on External Issues whilst the Opposition focuses on Internal Issues
- The UP politicians would be freed up to focus on Statesmanship, Collaboration, Negotiation, Implementation, Honesty, Trust, Wisdom,
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- https://theconversation.com/what-makes-a-good-political-leader-and-how-can-we-tell-before-voting-214351
- https://www.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/news/2020/march/australian-voters-reveal-the-most-important-qualities-for-political-leaders
- Links
- https://www.vision.org/peace-government-systems-and-democracy-1156
- https://www.schirn.de/en/magazine/context/political_art_now/power_to_the_people_from_the_1960s_to_the_present/
- Wikipedia
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_to_the_people_(slogan)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_Representation_Society_of_Australia
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_Representation_Society_of_Ireland
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_reform
- The Economist –
- https://www.economist.com/briefing/2015/02/19/the-breaking-point
- https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/may/10/proportional-representation-general-election-2010
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