Sustainability England Democracy

There are classic psychology experiments that demonstrates why power corrupts. Confirmation bias, also called confirmatory bias or myside bias, is the tendency to search for, interpret, favour, and recall information in a way that confirms one's pre-existing beliefs or hypotheses. It is a type of cognitive bias and a systematic error of inductive reasoning.

In other words, people will generally interpret the world around them in a manner which reinforces their view. When people in power do this it is inevitable that they will favour explanations and conditions that reinforce that very power.

Democracy aims to limit this by including the views of all citizens so that the resulting actions represent a variety of positions, with "the most popular" being the chosen outcome.

As globalisation concentrates power, particularly in unelected bodies such as bureaucrats, multinational corporations, media moguls & the "super rich" democracy inevitably suffers.

Sustainability England believe that decisions should be made by those most effected by those decisions, not by unelected elites following the theory of subsidiarity, ironically a defining feature of the European Union!

A revised voting system based on proportional representation and direct democracy for major policy decisions would ensure elected officials carry out the will of the majority whilst maintaining a voice for developing political movements.

Woke movements that promote the restriction of free speech should be exposed and opposed.

OBJECTIVES

To devolve democratic power to the most local level practically possible

To encourage democratic participation using traditional & technological methods

To minimise voter fraud by requiring voter identification documents & minimising postal voting.

Political candidates should be funded from tax revenue and not from self interested donors

Proportional Representation to replace the "first past the post" parliamentary system

Direct democracy via referendum to be implemented for all major policy decisions

Reform of the unelected House of Lords to an elected second chamber

The enshrinement of free speech in law

Oppose all movements who's aim is to limit or oppose freedom of speech

Repeal all "hate speech" laws