With so much that needs to be corrected and changed for the better, it may seem a little trivial to go full circle back to the issue of how politics works, where Levelling Level first began. However, we are in the mess that we are in, and we are faced with the huge challenge of … Continue reading The right people in politics = the right decisions on behalf of us all
Tag: Public Representation
We should all be able to access and communicate with the Politicians making decisions on our behalf
The argument that we can no longer have free access to top politicians because it is not safe for them, underpins the reality that power has now been focused and concentrated too far away from us and towards too few for the decisions that affect us every day to make any real sense to those … Continue reading We should all be able to access and communicate with the Politicians making decisions on our behalf
Your influence is yours to give to Politicians and is for Politicians to answer to
We cannot all be politicians. In fact, very few of us would even want to be politicians. But that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be accessible to us, especially when they are making the decision on our behalf that affect us all. We all have an equal stake in society. In our communities. In our Country … Continue reading Your influence is yours to give to Politicians and is for Politicians to answer to
Political decisions should always be taken at the level where they will achieve the most good
Contrary to what our political masters would like us all to believe, we do not have people leading us from London who have a better understanding of how life works, or how we see, experience and feel about the lives that we live. Yet the way that government works and the way that the public … Continue reading Political decisions should always be taken at the level where they will achieve the most good
Governance from the Community up; not from Westminster down
As you read through this book, you are increasingly likely to see that there is a vein of commonalty running through many of the issues or existing policies that Levelling Level looks to unpick. That commonality is the mechanics of a top-down, hierarchical or centralised structure.
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