A blueprint for a new age...

There has to be a new plan say two UK Tories...the old parties and their ideas are dead. The new parties must listen to the anger of a fed up, taken for granted electorate, weary of the failings and lies of the past. The new political victory will come from more personal responsibility and much much more direct democracy...one of its many champions is the blogger Obnoxio ...more here...

OK, but what can other voters learn from this Northern hemisphere exchange? What is imperfect in the UK is little better in Australasia, in spite of proportional voting and (an Australian) upper house...what is needed is an analysis of what works well...and direct democracy via referendums, as practiced in 32 states of the USA and Switzerland, would seem to be a bloody good start...

An Aussie academic wrote a book about it...here