We should have elections every year?


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We should have elections every year

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Reasons To Disagree

Does not allow enough time for progress (dealing with issues), and instead time is spent on campaigning (promoting issues)

1 September 2005

It would mean less time passing bills and more time campaigning. I also believe that it would make people not want to stand for the election because it would be too stressful on them.

17 November 2005

That would be a certain recipe for administrative chaos.

5 March 2006

Perhaps rather than elections - we could have an annual referendum to decide on areas of policy weakness or additional requirements. Certainly to remove a limited number of individuals from office who have not performed adequately or who have become implausable in the public eye - this process could be initiated to prevent what is occurring now where the PM decides to maintain an individual in office where some serious breach of ethics has occurred. Result - less Parliamentary privilege.

1 August 2006

Instead of holding the politicians accountable every year, we should have additional measures to recall our representatives at any time as such that a vast number of the constituents should decide. Another problem with yearly elections would be the cost with the extra administrational support required for it.

15 April 2007

If our elections were every four years instead of every three great politicians have enough time to achieve and crap ones have enough time to hang themselves!

12 January 2008

bit too excessive ppl would get sick of voting

1 May 2008

A 3 year term is too short. Year 1 = settling in, Year 2 doing something, Year 3 gearing up to the next election.

21 June 2008

expensive, time consuming and daft. Nothing would ever get done

4 November 2008

Yeah right - then nothing would ever get done! BUT PERHAPS IT'S A GOOD IDEA - WITH PRACTICE WE MAY GET BETTER AT MAKING AN INTELLIGENT SELECTION - IF WE GOT ANY INTELLIGENT CANDIDATES.

1 September 2009

We have to pay for it, Imagine how much higher our taxes would be!

24 December 2009

Referendums aren't legally BINDING so why waste your breath with them. An ELECTION every FOUR years will be better than several legally binding referendums because constituents should be able to judge policies for themselves!?

14 May 2010

Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner

27 August 2012

 

Reasons To Agree

I agree because I'm a Politics junkie love it. Love the performances, like learning the party values and their vision. This election it amases me how many are short sighted and greedy.

13 September 2005

If it is glaringly obvious that a party has acted the opposite to the manifesto it presented during campaigning, we should have the opportunity to punish it by removal.

20 August 2006

Permanent revolution!

10 February 2007

This will keep all politicians honest.

24 August 2007

How can anybody disagree with this, but also agree that democracy is good??

2 December 2012

Reasons for Remain Neutral

In order to keep the buggers honest we could have rolling elections. Let's have 100 electorates, and have an election in six of those electorates every three months. That might force the parties to take a little more interest in what their real employers require of them.

10 October 2010

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