Yes, it's about politics - but it's a good news one, I swear.
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Yes, it's about politics - but it's a good news one, I swear.
Earlier in the year, Cornwall had its council elections and to nobody's great surprise, Reform got the most seats (this is a county which voted for Brexit, despite being an EU Objective One beneficiary to the tune of hundreds of millions of pounds).
But they didn't get a majority, and nobody would work with them, so a coalition of Lib Dems and Indies are running the show. Ooh, Reform were mad about it - death of democracy, subverting the people's will, etc.
Anyway, five councillors have since quit the party to form their own club, so it's no longer the largest on the council anyway, after the leader got involved in a *hilarious* pub argument, in public, and everything went gammony over the political equivalent of what their Marjorie said about our Sandra at cousin Kevin's wedding, when she knew Aunty Ida had always promised Sandra that teapot. Obviously, the reasons given for the schism were different, but a secret audio recording was produced which seems to nail it down to Peak Reform.
Anyway, said ex-leader's wife, who was bizarrely representing a district 50 miles from where she lived and who apparently didn't bother to turn up to local council meetings, has now resigned altogether in what may be a huff.
Local social media is awash with people angrily exclaiming that none of these eejits should have stood for Reform, as they clearly weren't Reform material, and all the elections must be run again to get 'proper' Reform councillors in charge of everything.
Remember, it's the party of the people, working tirelessly on the things which matter.
Magical stuff.
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Here is why I think election by sortition can't be any worse.
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Couldn't be any worse *on average*.
For every pragmatic left-centrist, there's a swivel-eyed loon who wants to burn witches (and whose definition of witches is both wide and predictable), so the only way to keep it sensible is to have a reasonable number of people in charge, all at the same level. Because if you have a single leader through sortition, it's amazing how many people are into the witch burning thing and ideas for changing the system to stay in place.
So now you've got a committee. Have you ever been on one of those? The resultant intelligence is inversely proportional to the number of people on it. And nothing gets decided, ever.
We. Are. Doomed.
