Quote Originally Posted by Default the Magyar View Post
Instead of lambasting your fellow taxpayers and Britons for not knowing enough, seek a solution, if they do not know enough, help them know enough. Do not use their lack of knowledge as a weapon against them or as reason to disregard their what they firmly hold as their right to have a say. Doing anything else will merely anatgonise those people who view the EU through a mist of fear and apprehension.
I already spoke about this, please look earlier. I recommended teaching critical thinking and how to get your own sources equipping a population with the tools to make the right choices. Also, you have to remember, talking about a Federal Europe is on a completely different time-scale, no one is saying they want it tomorrow, it simply won't work and I believe as you said, you need to deal with the backyard first.

If you want some direct answers now, how about reading this:

The biggest answer would be declaring a Consitutional Republic and creating a 5-state Federal Government of Scotland, Wales, North England, South England and Northern Ireland. Before you wonder, majority of this framework is already in place, it is just that the majority are held by unelected dangos. Using the Britain "at the top" in regards to issues that effect everything, the majority of the power is at the local level, the top is merely a bridge/framework holding everything together.

In elections, we will keep with a similar system of how MP's are elected now, but they play their part now in their areas and not in Westminster and anyone representing the areas such as North England, would have to be elected separately. The part of MP's are merely administrative function and elected people to do the job while majority of policy is done through Direct Democracy and using resources such as the Internet to engage the public more with policies. You create a system of transparency, luckily the Freedom of Information Act has done great work in this field, to prevent issues such as corruption arising. All essential infrastructural resources such as energy/gas should be re-nationalised, removing the idiocy Thatcher put in place and we work on attempting to get energy independence to prevent foreign powers such as Russian forcing its will like it does with the likes of the Ukraine on us.

As for tackling issues such as apathy and lack of political education, in schools, the main underlying policies would be taught along with key skills such as being able to verify and examine sources of information, using critical thinking skills and other things in order to equip a population of informed politically aware citizens. Other causes would start to disappear as people would see the effects of decisions and know they are being heard.


How about that for a short couple of paragraphs? Doesn't really sound as authoritarian as people accuse me of trying to suggest.