Our System.
Most of us realise our political system is deeply flawed. Rather than being leftish for four or five years then rightish for a few years, or in the case of Wales leftish all the time most of us would like to see something more balanced. We'd like a bit of both all the time but that's never an option on a ballot paper.
There are also serious problems with media power being abused and the same goes for corporate and union power. There's nothing we can do about it so we don't try and the politicians won't because they are either supported by these groups or in the case of the media, are afraid to take them on.
Campaign for Democracy changes that. Our system allows people, parties and campaigning organisations to put their own ideas forward through a reform process that is separate from the Senedd. To be adopted a proposal must be passed by the Senedd but if the Senedd rejects the proposal it goes to a Welsh referendum.
The use of referendums in a reform process would inevitably lead to demands for referendums on anything so we campaign for the introduction of the Swiss system in Wales. This system allows the people of Switzerland to initiate binding referendums and this has a moderating effect on Swiss politics. The stability that comes from this moderation is probably the base on which Swiss success is built.
We want that success for Wales.
The two boxes below lead to sections on the two parts of Campaign for Democracy's system, the reform process and Direct Democracy.
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.