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Pledge “byelectionwhip”
"I will take action at the next by-election to educate people about what MPs actually do in Parliament but only if 10 other people will do the same."
— Julian Todd, co-creator of Public Whip (contact)
Deadline to sign up by: 1st September 2008
10 people have signed up
Country: United Kingdom
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In this country political power comes from the ballot box during an election.
Political parties are too self-interested, irresponsible and entrenched to be trusted to provide the information the electorate needs to make an informed choice about their limited options.
The vacuous quality of the average party election leaflet, and the fact that this is all that the voters receive during a campaign, explains everything about the abysmal state of politics today.
I need volunteers to help design webpages and leaflets that are informed by under-reported Parliamentary events, and be willing to distribute them through letterboxes in the run-up to the next by-election. This is likely to be in Henley if Boris Johnson resigns his seat.
For more, see what was done during the Crewe and Nantwich by-election:
http://www.freesteel.co.uk/wpblog/2008/0...
Part of the purpose is to gain experience for the General Election.
The most extreme example of an issue which needs to be raised during a re-election campaign is the Freedom of Information (Exemption of Parliament) Bill, reported here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/ar...
Current signatories (
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Julian Todd, the Pledge Creator, joined by:
- Aidan McGuire
- Francis Irving
- Chris Lintott
- Tim Hart
- Russell Whiting
- ralph perry robinson
- sajid ali
- Tom Kaneko
- Phil Shipley
- garsin cheung
Suggested pledges
Some of the people who signed this pledge also signed these pledges...
- refuse to accept a national ID card (2 people)
- organising crazy events to raise over £5000 for charity before i turn 18 (1 person)
- refuse to comply with any compulsary ID card scheme. (1 person)
- give £36 to a fund to hire the services of an ex-cabinet minister (1 person)
- pledge X (I am doing 5) pounds per game Sasha plays and keeps himself out of the officials book (1 person)
- stand for Parliament at the next general election to use the free mailing to raise awarenes of the unfairness of straddling young people with massive debt in order to complete higher education (1 person)
- lend one of my DVDs to 3 friends (1 person)
I will be writing to my MP to show my dissatisfaction.
If anyone is interested, I have an added pledge writing to my MP about the erosion of our civil liberties here:
http://www.pledgebank.com/libertynotterror
The rest are just"lobbyfodder"
Where is Guy Fawkes when you need him??