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Self-seeking politicians: Remedies

It is an appropriate moment to consider how our political system could
be improved in order to reduce the risks of further major errors of
policy (e.g. finance) and corrupt or irresponsible behaviour by MPs and
government ministers.

Factors to be addressed include:

Reduced influence of MPs and parliament and dominance of country and
parliament by the "executive" (essentially, so it seems, the prime
minister and a few confidants). Parliament cannot effectively scrutinise
government or EU proposals and in recent decades has rarely acted
effectively to introduce, change or reject (proposed) policy and law.
The self-esteem of MPs is thus reduced and the chances of anti-social
behaviour by them increased. .

Powerlessness of the people. After giving away your vote to a political
party and MP you have no say at all until the next election ... Even
Quintin Hogg called this state of affairs "electoral dictatorship". We
as an electorate have no effective way to put forward a proposal and no
way to veto an unwanted law.

An electoral system -- "first past the post" -- which produces very poor
representation of the people's political will.

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