[ubuntu-uk] Digital economy bill

[paula at fossbox.org.uk]

I think there has been general agreement in the silos of government
since the 'mysociety No 10' fiasco that 'participatory' democracy is a
bad idea because the public is too thick to understand the issues facing
modern society. The public may stupidly associate the socialist party
with outmoded ideas such as economic justice, freedom of speech and
association, privacy, democracy, etc.

If you can manufacture evidence, ignore half a million people hitting
the streets plus public incredulity from the Foreign Office as well as
the concentrated opposition of the BBC before going ahead to invade
Iraq, and then brazen it out without apology when the shit subsequently
hits the fan, it's hard to imagine 20k letters to MPs would actually
matter?

And yet it's moats and porno bills that are held to have undermined our
faith in our democratic processes - or perhaps yet another diversionary
obsession supplied by the right-wing press.

BTW, the petition against DEB is at #5 at the mysociety petition site
below two petitions fulminating on behalf of the armed forces and one
fulminating against Islam. Possibly does something to excuse the
governmental contempt for petitions and emails from e-democracy sites?

Paula

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Thomas Ibbotson wrote:
> On 9 April 2010 16:58, mac <ammonius.grammaticus at gmx.co.uk> wrote:
>   
>> Andy wrote:
>> <snip>
>>     
>>> 189 MPs voted Yes (Aye), 47 voted No (Noe).
>>> There are 646 MPs so most of them couldn't even be bothered to vote.
>>>       
>> Worse yet, according to press reports many of those who voted did not
>> attend the preceding debate.
>>
>> mac
>>     
>
> Granted this is bad, but how bad is it? This is the only vote I've
> ever followed closely so I have no idea whether this is normal or
> whether it is out of the ordinary.
>
> Tom
>
>