How to practically implement the changes

Unfortunately we must play (and win) their game before rewriting the rules.

First we must attain a majority in parliament under the current system in order to affect this change.

We ourselves are not a political party and are not standing directly for any seat of control, nor do we have any political policies on which to stand.

As an independent foundation without any political affiliations, we are relying on public support and pressure to urge your local representatives to join us, whether you’re Conservative, Labour, Green, Lib Dem, Reform or Advance. We encourage any and all MPs to listen and join us, though we suspect our best hope will be independent candidates.

We feel it is likely that MPs currently in parliament will be resistant to change so we aim to put our efforts into persuading candidates who intend to stand in the next election. We hope our proposals gain the interest of well established party politicians but with enough public support for this movement even the most unheard of independent candidate could be elected. Even just one would send a clear message to the establishment.

Your local representative should be your voice, so let’s make our voices heard.

It may be years before we start to see a shift and eventually when the support in parliament is there it’ll likely be another few years of debate while they decide how to implement any changes.

Here’s how we see the big picture unfolding without getting into the bureaucratic weeds.

  • The Overseer department should be instated first, initially headed and constructed by a team with relevant expertise. All members of this team should be required to undergo the same background checks and comply with the same rules and procedures they propose to initiate.

    We don’t believe in self regulation so we invite members of all parties to observe and archive their observations, even contribute ideas on how this department should function.

    These observations and suggestions should be verifiable by the public, else they hold no weight.

    Once  proposals of how the Overseer department is to function fairly and in the best interests of the public we can proceed.

  • The Overseer department proposals will be open to public scrutiny and candidates who wish to head this new department can put together their plans and arguments for improvement ready to campaign for this position.

    After a reasonable period for campaigning and debate an election will be held with proportional representation to determine the publics choice for the new Minister and the unsuccessful candidates offered a Shadow Minister position.

    With the Overseer Minister now publicly elected the department can start functioning with a mandate from the people to monitor and archive all departments activities.

    Again, at this stage we encourage and invite members of all parties to utilise their own members to make independent observations and archives, also to be publicly verified.

  • The Treasury, now compliant with the Overseers procedures of oversight, should make financial records and information available for public scrutiny.

    This will allow for potential candidates who wish to be the minister for this department to review relevant information and form their own plans and arguments for improvements, ready to campaign for this position.

    We advised that candidates consider the disruption their plans will cause to all departments and communicate this with the public so they have a choice on how much disruption is warranted.

    Again, after a reasonable period for campaigning and debate an election will be held with proportional representation to determine the publics choice for the new Minister and Shadow Minister of the Treasury.

  • Current administration for all remaining departments should now also be compliant with the Overseers procedures and adjusting to the new financial constraints imposed on them by the Treasury Department as voted for by the public.

  • By this stage the Overseer department should have reasonably expanded observations to all remaining departments and made records accessible for public review.

    If so, potential candidates interested in all remaining Ministerial positions have had time to put together their campaigns to run for election to these positions and thus we can begin the electoral process and a date can be set for voting.

  • Each position being elected using a proportional representation method.

  • All ministerial positions including the new Overseer position but excluding the Treasury Minister, can continue to be elected in the same fashion henceforth and take place every 4 or 6 years. The duration of each term in office is open to debate.

  • The Treasury Minister should be elected in the same manor with same duration of each term but at the mid point between the other ministers terms. This is to create a loop of information that is useful for both the treasury and the other ministers.

    The first elected treasurer is to set policy and budgets using the finances already in place which will no doubt be a challenge.

    The other new ministers will have access to the budgetary information required for them to form new ‘realistic’ initiatives within that constraint and as part of their campaign they can make proposals for what they would do if they were given extra funding and how much extra they estimate would be needed.

    This process changes empty promises we used to have into targets for the next treasury candidates to consider when putting together their campaigns.

    This loop of information creates a clearer picture for voters on what they’re capable of actually getting from each minister as well as how those ministers plan on improving their departments further without promising the improvements before the budget has even been set.

  • Local representatives are next.

    They are already ‘elected’ officials but now they shall be elected with the proportional representation method as well.

    Due to the change in their duties every seat should initially be contested to allow for the public to vote fairly for a representative they believe will be effective. Due to no longer having any partisan affiliations a proportional representation vote can finally turn local representatives into representatives for their locals.

    Also due to no longer having influence of policies they can be replaced as often as necessary, Providing yet more flexibility.

  • The Prime Minister.

    Initially it is likely the Prime Minister will function as usual in order to start the restructuring process.

    At each stage where a ministerial position is elected the PM should cease to have any mandated authority over that position.

    PM is to actively adjust their role at each stage, releasing power and political weight until eventually all local representatives and ministerial positions have been elected.

    Then the Prime Minister will step aside and a new Prime Minister replace them using the same proportional representation voting system.

There we have it. A new era of democracy where the power lies with the people. The collective wisdom of a group conscience guiding progress.

A society coming together to determine the best path forward with the flexibility to apply different ideologies and logic to different scenarios.

A system that is transparent, accountable and held to higher standards.

It’ll be a long road, no doubt there will be resistance (there always is to change) but this change is long over due.