Jury Team wants 'Independents' from party politics
http://pr.cannazine.co.uk : The political landscape in the United Kingdom is suffering with a 'void' of character and honesty currently. No one politician is any LESS guilty than another, for the recent expenses scandal showed that even though Great Britain may be on its knees financially there's still plenty in the pot to pay ludicrously high bonus's to fat-cat bank directors. Even though according to some quarters, companies bailed out of a financial quagmire with government hand outs should now belong to the public.
Aware that many people have lost faith in government, and the areas of life over which it presides, last summer Sir Paul Judge started formulating the idea of a new kind of political movement: one based on the principles of good governance and transparency.
The Jury Team launched on 16th March 2009 with the aim of cleaning up politics. The need for this has been reinforced by the current spate of political sleaze stories,
which have highlighted the grip of the existing parties on British politics.
The Jury Team pledges to break this grip, by electing a new set of independently minded real people into Parliament.
Reaffirming this pledge, the Jury Team ran an open primary election to select their candidates to stand in the European Parliamentary elections on June 4th. The general public voted with their mobile phones to select fifty-nine candidates to stand for the Jury Team in eleven regions across the UK.
As a new political movement based on harnessing the power of modern technology, the Jury Team will no doubt face opposition from the established political parties. The time is right to change this establishment: a new dawn in UK politics is needed, and Parliament must reassert its ancient right to scrutinise the government and hold it to account.
The name of the movement alludes to the basic idea of the party: Juries made up of regular people are able to make decisions about difficult problems; their lack of vested interests is paramount. A jury allows people to choose between two competing arguments, often with profound impacts on people's lives, and the Jury Team believes that independent people in Parliament would be able to choose between political alternatives.
The Jury Team has a very strong governance agenda epitomised by its three slogans: Politics for the People, Politics without Parties and Politics with Principles. These inform its three key principles:
* That governments should be run for the benefit of the people and not for the benefit of any political party;
* That elected representatives should vote according to their view of what is best for the country and for their constituents, and not at the direction of any political party.
* That politicians should fully comply with the Nolan Principles of Public Life and have externally decided and transparent remuneration. Relating to the European Parliamentary elections on 4th June, the Jury Team had five proposals for improving governance within the European Union:
* MEPs should be free to vote in line with the needs of their constituents and of the United Kingdom and not be required to obey any party whips.
* MEPs should only have their expenses approved if they submit receipts, should publish details of all of their expenses and outside earnings, and should have their pensions brought into line with the average for the EU private sector.
* MEPs should be limited to serving a maximum of three five-year terms.
* The European Parliament should set up an Independent MEPs Complaints Commission, modelled on the UK's Independent Police Complaints Commission, to investigate accusations made about MEPs and their staffs.
* A European Referendum should be called whenever requested by 5% of the European Union's electorate.
Find out more about becoming an independent member of parliament, with Jury Team.
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