POWER Inquiry recommendations slammed as ineffective and lacking imagination

New democracy website SacktheParties.org.uk has criticised the recommendations of the POWER Inquiry for failing to recognise the true source of political disengagement, namely the Parliamentary System itself.

[ClickPress, Wed May 17 2006] Spokesman for SacktheParties.org.uk, Stephen Dillon, who has been involved in the POWER Inquiry as an ordinary contributor, said "while the Executive remains rooted in Parliament and exercises control over it via the whip system, there can be no independent balance to its power. No amount of tweaking of the current system can redress the balance. Only fundamental and radical reform of the institutions of government will restore the faith of the people in democracy.

"Although the work of the Commission is very welcome, there has been far too much weight given to politicians and experts, resulting in a set of recommendations that lack imagination, are thin on detail and that will not address the real problem."

The website contains a detailed commentary on the recommendations of the Power Inquiry, together with its own suggestions, which, as the name suggests, involve eliminating political parties from both houses of Parliament.

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Notes to Editors
1. SacktheParties.org.uk campaigns for comprehensive application of the principles of separation and subsidiarity in the institutions of government.

2. Separation of the institutions of government used to be an important part of the UK constitution but does not receive any attention in the media today. SacktheParties.org.uk puts the case for why separation is important for democratic balance and suggests novel ways of achieving it, including an alternative to the "elect or appoint" options for reform of the House of Lords.

3. Subsidiarity is only ever mentioned in the context of Europe, but is never properly explained. SacktheParties.org.uk argues that this principle is essential to establishing real "bottom-up" politics.

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