Extinction Rebellion called for a peoples forum to oversee the government response to climate change. So the government said they would set up a peoples forum. It has now reported back. Extinction Rebellion say they have not gone far enough.
To anybody that had thought through the ER demands this was an obvious outcome. A peoples forum will always deliver an average view of the people – and that will include people that are climate change doubters. A peoples forum will never deliver the wishes of a group at one extreme like ER.
No, you need a different system if you are going to take extreme action.
I always view proportional representation along the same lines. Sometimes you need governments to take strong measures that will never be acceptable to the average person in the country.
A flawed system of representation like our first past the post gives us a government that can do things that would be unacceptable in a PR setting. A peoples forum will never deliver the extreme actions that ER want. But what will? Maybe just a change in who we elect with out broken first past the post system?
In other news my BT contract ends soon – I will revert to the non-contract rate which is £7 a month higher. My alternative is to sign another contract, which will be £14 a month more. Interesting strategy.