http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/techno...and-out-of-touch-its-time-to-fix-westminster/
Following on from the thread about Labour and the left, in which Buzzer and I both expressed disillusion with party politics and professional politicians, Telegraph blogger Mic Wright has written a piece expressing the same sort of view. Only he's doing something about it.
The above link is to his plans to support 10 Independent candidates in the 2015 Election using a mixture of donations and crowd funding. The candidates must be under 30 and unaffiliated. They can't stand on a hate ticket. They can take the salary but not expenses (Mic has since clarified on twitter they can take allowances - which are different - so they can run a constituency office).
Can it work? Will it work? And if one of them stood in your constituency with a manifesto you liked would you vote for them?
Following on from the thread about Labour and the left, in which Buzzer and I both expressed disillusion with party politics and professional politicians, Telegraph blogger Mic Wright has written a piece expressing the same sort of view. Only he's doing something about it.
The above link is to his plans to support 10 Independent candidates in the 2015 Election using a mixture of donations and crowd funding. The candidates must be under 30 and unaffiliated. They can't stand on a hate ticket. They can take the salary but not expenses (Mic has since clarified on twitter they can take allowances - which are different - so they can run a constituency office).
Can it work? Will it work? And if one of them stood in your constituency with a manifesto you liked would you vote for them?