A Wales that works for all
Our legacy
£2,000,000,000,000 of debt, a housing crisis, an obesity crisis and climate change.
What we're doing isn't working but the political system we have cannot solve the problems we face, indeed it's responsible for many of them and it's not capable of meaningful change. Campaign for Democracy's systems transfer power from politicians in the Senedd to the people of Wales allowing us to create systems that work for all. Some politicians aren't going to like that but we've found a Pressure Point, a way of making it happen.
The Pressure Point
Elections results aren't always decided by the millions of people who vote. They're often decided by a few thousand floating voters living in marginal constituencies. Floating voters are people who don't always vote for the same party and marginal seats are closely fought seats that switch from party to party at elections. For example, when Theresa May lost the 2017 election she lost by about 700 votes in nine marginal constituencies. In Wales where Labour dominate the 2021 result depended on the votes of about 10,000 people in six constituencies. In 2016 it was just three thousand voters.
These voters can have a huge amount of power at elections because they decide which party wins. Instead of making a choice we get them to make a demand, the demand being a transfer of power from politicians to people by the introduction of our system.
Whichever party accepts the demand first will get those votes and win the election.
General Election 2024
We can expect a General Election later this year so now is the time to plan and then run Campaign for Democracy.
It's looks like Labour are so far ahead nothing can stop them but Labour has a problem. When that is revealed everything will change and the campaign will run. To begin with we will target Labour seats in Wales and then spread the campaign across Britain.
Our System
Our two part system will allow the people of Wales to initiate referendums after the collection of a set number of signatures from registered voters.
Our system is based on the Swiss model, a system that has forced the four main parties in Switzerland to work together in one coalition government for over fifty years
Our separate reform process allows us to initiate referendums on reforming the political system and the influences on the system. We'll be able to challenge corporate power, media power and union power directly.
For an overview of the system click on the button to the right and for more detail please look at the boxes below.
Change is needed but people have different ideas on what needs to change so rather than campaign for particular reforms we campaign for a reform process, something we can all agree is needed, and more importantly something we can all support.
Political parties only change things when it's to their advantage, or to the advantage of those who pay their bills and that's why nothing changes.
Our transparent, open and honest reform process breaks the logjam.
Direct Democracy systems allow people to initiate binding referendums, to make their own laws or remove laws they don't want but like any system if it's set up badly then it won't work any better than our so-called representative democracy, a form of democracy that is neither representative or democratic. The button above leads to a series of pages that show how best to combine Direct Democracy with Parliamentary democracy so we get the best of both systems.
We know the problems, we know the solutions but we can't solve the problems we face with the systems we have.
Campaign for Democracy gives us the tools we need to create a political system
that works for all the people of Wales.
Making it happen
We want a referendum on the introduction of our systems.
Politicians will have to pass some of their power to the people of Wales but they're not going to want to do that. You can help us put them under pressure in two ways, by becoming a supporter and by using your vote in a key marginal seat.
Nothing changes because those who have power and those who influence them don't want real change. Campaign for Democracy makes change possible through an honest, transparent, democratic process accessible to all. If that's what you want you have to make that clear to the politicians. Campaign for Democracy makes it easy for you so join us now!
The Campaign and our Principles
Two pages, Campaign and Principles where you'll find everything you want to know about Campaign for Democracy, it's roots, the ideas behind the campaign, what we are up to now and how the campaign will develop.
We've got the ideas, we've shown we know how to get our message across and most important of all we know how to put the politicians under pressure. This section explains how we're going to take the campaign across the new constituency of Montgomeryshire Glyndwr, to Brecon and Radnorshire and then across the rest of Wales .
Campaign for Democracy is not built on some narrow, biased ideology. Everything we propose is based on what we know about evolution, good decision making processes, human behaviour and how different systems affect our behaviour. In this section we cover the four ideas every system must include if it is to lead to a fair and sustainable society.
The People
The majority of people are honest and generous so taking power from politicians and passing it to the people of Wales makes sense but there are a couple of important questions that need to be answered. Can we, the people make good decisions and
can we create systems that bring people together in a way that the
current divisive political system never can?
