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But we all know how easy it would be to rig an election by on-line fraud, or by intercepting e-mails, even if the maximum level of encryption was used. If IS can hack twitter accounts, and GCHQ can intercept your e-mails and phone calls, how do we keep it a secret ballot? Just because it's...

So on the one hand our politicians want overseas territories acting as tax havens, who don't disclose registers of accounts, to be put on an international blacklist, yet they have ( from both sides of the House of Commons ) benefitted from having political donations from exactly those self same...

And I'd argue that the Scottish Referendum turnout blows your arguement out of the water. People DO care and DO get engaged with the decision making process IF they can see that their vote WILL make a difference.

You just have to look at the percentage of the electorate who don't vote at elections to quantify the number of people who don't accept the current arrangement of 'first past the post'. Proportional representation might just make a few people less apathetic about the whole process.

I'm not saying we should, I am arguing that the principal of Liberte, Egalite , Fraternite that emerged from the French Revolution, and the psuedo-marxist regime of early post revolutionary Russia before Stalinism came to the fore are very similar. Trotsky compared Lenin to Robespierre, but...

I don't think we have ever attempted 'real' socialism in this country. We are still obsessed about 'class' and 'status' originating partly from our Constitutional monarchy and it's awards and gongs, and partly because as an Island nation, we see ourselves as 'a breed apart' and able to stand on...

BUT it happened as a consequence of MASSIVE bloodshed between 1939-45, and (in Nazi Occupied territories ), vast earlier bloodshed. The 30 year period you're talking about was not a "revolution against corruption and injustice" , and you have conveniently forgotten about the 'Troubles' in...

The French managed it in 1789, and the Russians in 1917................ It's nothing new. But we haven't done it since 1642 and the 'Devine right of Kings'. Now we have the 'Devine right of the rich'........... If we continue to let this kind of thing go unfettered, we will be back to Rotten...

Once you give one person the right to avoid paying the full amount of tax to which they are liable, you give that right to all. Therefore , those of us who pay PAYE and have that monies deducted from our hard earned salaries are morally obligated to expose those who do not follow our example (...