With Neil Petrie
Neil Petrie is a political campaigner who has lived in Switzerland for several years. He is now passionate about electoral change and is determined to invoke a Swiss-style Direct Democracy voting system within UK politics.
Direct Democracy literally gives power back to the people. In Switzerland this is at local level within each canton. The parliament in Bern is much smaller than the UK’s Westminster equivalent. Most of the MPs are part timers, each with a full time job separate from mainstream politics. The parliament only sits for a short period compared to the UK.
Because of this most legislation can be put to referenda in each canton. The people literally decide upon their own policies, completely different form the UK’s somewhat feudal system (we still have a tradition of giving out peerages to nobles).
Join us on Saturday 5th July at 13:00hrs at the Hop Merchant Nottingham to listen to Neil’s presentation.