Intuitive Interactions: Political Reform page

I have written a number of articles proposing reforms to the political systems in this country. I am sharing them here, and would welcome any comments or suggestions you may have.

Please note that these articles are all copyright. If you want to print them in any newspaper, magazine or journal, please contact me. If you want to use the ideas, however, my purpose of publishing this information here is to make sure that the ideas are freely available for all to use.

Electoral Reform The current electoral system in this and many other countries, (first past the post system), means that less than 1/3 of the electorate get their views heard in the parliament. For many people it is simply not worth voting, and election turn-outs of 40% or less are common in such areas; tactical voting is rampant. The best of the current proportional representation systems, (single transferrable vote), results in about 56% of people having some representation of their views in parliament. Tactical voting is much less common but not completely absent, and electoral turn-outs of 50 to 65% are common.
This document is proposing a system where every vote really does count and 92% of voters has a single representative in parliament that reflects his views, and everybody has access to one of several members of parliament whose views on a particular topic matches their own. It also means that each political party has a representative for every part of the country.
The system also allows people living and working abroad to be represented in parliament and to have a vote.
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The Management of Critical Strategic Infrastructure: Critical Strategic Infrastructures are those systems that when they fail, much of society experiences a serious degradation of the quality of life. Management of these systems must be done by national government and this requires the management to have a sufficient understanding of the technologies to ensure that decisions fully address the strategic implications. This requires the decision-makers to have appropriate education and qualifications in both the technologies concerned and in management.
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Modern Slavery: If a person in full-time employment does not earn enough to cover essential living expenses is he enslaved? If a person has no alternative but to work in physically or mentally unsafe conditions is he also enslaved? This document asks a number of such questions, ending with: "what is the Government doing about this situation?"
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The Euthenasia Debate: Explores some of the ethical and environmental issues around euthenasia.
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The Drug Problem - and how to solve it: The present Government Drug Policy puts unlimited quantities of money into organised crime, causes a huge drain on the country's economy and penalises the victims - the addicts. The proposal is to provide drugs to addicts that have to be consumed on the premises, an "In The Arm Centre" located in the principal drug problem areas of towns and cities. No drugs are taken away in saleable form. This is consistent with current legislation; no change in the law is required.
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Solving the Crisis in the NHS: Throughout industry, employees with equivalent qualifications to nurses and junior doctors earn salaries of Ł75k to Ł150k per annum.
The NHS has a very heavy management and administration overload compared with best industry practice world-wide: 19 levels of management compared with 5 in efficient industries and between 7 and 9 times the number of management staff as a proportion of the contributing work-force. Most of the managers and administrators have few if any formal qualifications for the task that they are performing. This inevitably leads to inefficiency and demotivation amongst the staff contributing directly to patient care.
A team of management consultents should be engaged to perform a thorough review of NHS management, put in temporary managers during the transition, organise appropriate management education for those with the potential to benefit, engage properly qualified managers and administrators where required. There would be a one-off redundancy expenditure of about Ł6Bn, but a net saving sufficient to pay nurses and junior doctors salaries that are consistent with their qualifications and expertise.
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Work-related Stress: There is a serious problem in the UK, and perhaps other countries, of work-related stress. It is recognised by the Health and Safety Executive as being a problem and they offer advice on how to reduce it, but there have never been any actions to combat or correct this problem. Stress is always a result of bad management, and this document proposes that the problem should be resolved through appropriate compulsory management education.
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BREXIT Questions: There are a number of pieces of information regarding the BREXIT referendum that are in the public domain:
1. The referendum at which Britain decided to join the European Economic Community required a 60% majority in favour of change.
2. The BREXIT referendum achieved 51.89% in favour of the UK leaving the European Community.
3. A very short paragraph appeared in New Scientist 2˝ weeks after the BREXIT referendum. I quote from memory: “Of the Internet social media re-posts regarding BREXIT during the 24 hours before the polling stations opened, 95% were pro-BREXIT, and 95% of these came from just six Russian-controlled IP addresses.”
4. It was widely publicised some months later that a company called “Cambridge Analytica” had obtained the log-in details of all of the subscribers to a number of social media platforms ahead of the BREXIT referendum.
5. There was a considerable media publicity about a number of Russian business oligarchs who obtained permanent UK residency visas two years after BREXIT became law.
These pieces of information prompt a number of pertinenet questions that are asked in the document.
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Does the Uk need a Written Constitution? This document proposes some ideas for a written constitution. I would welcome any comments.
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Israeli National PTSD: Do the Israeli people suffer from a collective national Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder resulting from Nazi persecution in the 1930s and 40s? Does this explain the recent actions of Israel towards the Palestinian people and their allies?
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