Reeves will fail soon, damaging the country in the process. Her forecasts will be wrecked by the forthcoming global recession.

Time for serious democratic reform. Best you read my book REINVENTING DEMOCRACY. The MSM are afraid of change.

Time to end the absolute power of government and REINVENT DEMOCRACY to put the people in charge - all with decent checks and balances against liars, donors, and snake-oil salesmen in a written constitution, see sparklingbooks.com/rd.html

33. Broad disillusion with our politics, falling turnout for elections

34. Defence hollowed out

35. Too many signs of deepening poverty

4/4

Do please reply with any major omissions. Thank you. DK

28. Politicians talk growth but deliver lower living standards... then hide the effect statistically

29. Too many examples of extreme State power, e.g. environmental protesters getting severe sentences
3/n

25. Ignorance among politicians, too insulated from reality

26. Not enough good people come forward to serve

27. Tight Treasury control, people cannot relate public spending to taxes raised

19. No requirement for constitutional lock to protect smaller nations in referendums, ugly Brexit precedent that English numbers must prevail

20. The entire constitution is thick sludge: read the H of C paper and ask what is democratic about it?

2/n

17. Changes that constrain central power are overturned after a decade or two

18. Changes that enhance central power become permanent and unchallengeable.

13. Lies, damned lies, and statistics. Simple solution.

14. House of Lords reform, empty charades without power

15. The Privy Council

16. Impossible to change anything other than trivia

10. “Strategic” choice for next election – closed vs Europe, but risk of closed vs divided progressives
11. Proportional representation may disappoint, could let Farage hold balance of power
1/n

7. The younger generations are unhappy – house prices, Brexit, lack of any influence
8. Sheer complexity of 21st century world cannot be handled by centralised government.
9. PM has too much power, job is almost impossible to fill

3. NI – Scotland – Wales
4. Gibraltar and Spain. Overseas territories have no representation in UK politics.
5. Lack of written constitution. But UK had parts of one in EU.
6. Unstable politics, nonsense consultations e.g. imperial measures

In my book REINVENTING DEMOCRACY, one of many ideas is to ban donations and give electors vouchers for £5 every year to donate to a political party of their choice.

Cost would be around £100m to £150m depending on usage, utterly trivial for the Treasury and hugely significant for democracy

All these issues should be determined by the people voting on specific taxes for specific purposes. The Treasury hates hypothecation, but it is one of many, many changes needed to get rid of the absolute power of the elite

Deep pockets buy rewards. Time to reinvent our democracy and break the link to mass media

Our whole democracy needs reinventing, see sparklingbooks.com/rd.html

Massive reform of UK political governance is the only answer. Break the mass media link that allows the poor to be so downtrodden. Written constitution, federal UK, replace House of Lords and Privy Council by People's Council. All in my book REINVENTING DEMOCRACY see sparklingbooks.com/rd.html