Leading issues
This section provides resources, short presentations and briefs on the issues of fundamental importance in the defence of our freedom1. We maintain a vigilance to ensure that the information presented here is accurate and takes into account the latest known facts on each issue, therefore this section will always be a work in progress.
Readers may well note that the issues addressed, under the weight of the rhetoric of politicians, are often pushed into the background or even dismissed as being of little significance. Often the reason for this is not that these subjects are unimportant but rather that raising their profile to serve the interests of the people of the United Kingdom would risk creating splits and divisions within our main political parties. This means that quite frequently poltiical parties will not provide adequate attention to issues of fundamental importance to the people of the country.
Those who are interested in preserving freedom for themselves and their families need to keep their eye on the matters which count with a view to establishing preferences based upon their own needs as opposed to being limited to the options drawn up by political parties on the basis of a total membership is less than 1% of the electorate.
We hope readers find these sections interesting and useful. We welcome suggestions on possible additional themes.
A list of priority themes is shown below. By clicking on a title this dialogue will shiWe are completing discussions with a range of non-political sponsors of thee sections. The Juries section has been completed and is being checked before posting.
As each section is completed we will provide links. In the meantime each of these is described in the "boxes" below.
Juries - the freedom of each to defend the freedom of the other...
The imperative of
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Legislative decisions create laws. The application of the law is the responsibity of the judiciary working through a court system. Judges have to take decisions in judging cases and yet much legislation is not well conceived and at law is open to abuse expressed in the form of arbitrary decisions creating unjustified prejudice for innocents. In Britain the jury system embodies an approach to legal decisions which above all is designed to permit freely formed decisions by a group of citizens to defend the freedom of the innocent and prevent arbitrary decisions. This system has had a seminal role in establishing critical human rights now enjoyed by populations throughout the world. And yet political parties have worked over the centuries to get rid of juries. Emancipation consider this to be a serious mistake. Why not review the reasons why juries need to be preserved and even extended in application by visiting the Leading Issues section on juries by clicking on the title below:
Juries..... the feedom of each to defend the freedom of the other ....
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Constitution
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Legislative decisions create laws to which society is expected to adhere and yet today the decisions taken in Parliament to create laws are controlled by the governing party which today enjoys the support of no more than 19% of the electorate. The first-past-the-post electoral system therefore provides a factional minorioty with power to impose legislation on the majority, that it the 89% of the electorate which never voted for the legislation in the first place.
The fact that MPs vote in line with their party dictates and not in line with constituency wishes, as should be the case, undermines legitimacy of their role as well as of government decisions. Thus constitutionally our democracy sustains the "authority" of a Parliament which does not represent the will of the people and, therefore, since sovereignty rests with the people, uch authority is a usurpation of power exercised to the benefit of political parties.
To learn more about the range of constitutional issues associated with the behaviour of politicla parties visit the Constitution section of Leading Issues:
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High Noon for political parties?
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The end of the party - towards a better politics...
Recent works on constitution have demonstrated that the majority of the constraints upon a better and more open political system emanate from the behaviour of politicians who support a political party. Far from being at the heart of our democracy, poltical parties, which today represent in terms of membership no more than a tiny factional minority, have laid waste a wide range of provisions securing the freedom of the individual in the United Kingdom. | 
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This freedom is the very essence of our lives determining how we develop as children and evolve during our lifetimes so as to enable us to become the people we want to be as individuals. An appropriate freedom to achieve this does not create a race of clones, as the political parties seem to assume, but rather individuals who share common expectations of behaviour of what is normal in society, irrespective of law, directives, regulations and such-like attempts by political parties to regiment the people of this country. Political parties consider civilization to be represented by compliance of all to sets of values which co-incide with their collectivist mentalities and the objective of power is invariably to impose these on the majority. True freedom, achieved through a system of politics without parties can help create an enormous diversity of preferences founded, not be racial differences and stereotypes but rather by different family cultures, individual inclinations, distinctions and experiences combined with each person's unique genetic make-up.
A better way to run our politics exists but political parties remain in denial and in control; it remains for the people to reflect on their obligations or duties to future generations and to reject the illicit and collectivist controls manipulated by these factional minorities to seek and remain exercising power over the will of the majority.
Find out more as to how politics without parties is a feasible and better option:
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 Economics
During the last 65 years there have been four economic crises. Two were associated with a switch in emphasis in macroeconomic management to Keynesianisn in the post-war years and then Monetarism in the post 1979 period.
Today we pass through a major financial and economic crisis with neither Keynesianism nor Monetarism having adequate policy instruments to correct the situation without causing externalities and creating, as always, winners and losers as a direct outcome of policy decisions.
A filaed past experiment in supply side economics in fact did not apply supply side economics but the original prposals were corrupted by pork barrel politics of the US Congress. However, supply side economic did call attention to the gap in theory and practice in Keynesianism and Monetarism in thje form of the accommodation of technology, technique and innovation in economic policy and its relationship to monetary growth and currency stability. Work on the Real Incomes approach has extended this analysis to point out that nominal profit motive and governemntal policy preference being serviced by a specific sector, for example banks, causes normal economic motivations to end up with inappropriate behaviour and is this which became some part responsible for the current economic crisis.
The current crisis does not meet with anyone's preferences and yet the objective of economic policy should be to satisfy these. Far from being a sectoral failure, which it was, the current crisis can be traced to inappropriate macroenconomic models, objectives and instruments.
To learn more about how economics needs to change access the Economics section of Leading Issues:
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During the last 65 years there have been four economic crises. Two were associated with a switch in emphasis in macroeconomic management to Keynesianisn in the post-war years and then Monetarism in the post 1979 period.
Today we pass through a major financial and economic crisis with neither Keynesianism nor Monetarism having adequate policy instruments to correct the situation without causing externalities and creating, as always, winners and losers as a direct outcome of policy decisions.
A filaed past experiment in supply side economics in fact did not apply supply side economics but the original prposals were corrupted by pork barrel politics of the US Congress. However, supply side economic did call attention to the gap in theory and practice in Keynesianism and Monetarism in thje form of the accommodation of technology, technique and innovation in economic policy and its relationship to monetary growth and currency stability. Work on the Real Incomes approach has extended this analysis to point out that nominal profit motive and governemntal policy preference being serviced by a specific sector, for example banks, causes normal economic motivations to end up with inappropriate behaviour and is this which became some part responsible for the current economic crisis.
The current crisis does not meet with anyone's preferences and yet the objective of economic policy should be to satisfy these. Far from being a sectoral failure, which it was, the current crisis can be traced to inappropriate macroenconomic models, objectives and instruments.
To learn more about how economics needs to change access the Economics section of Leading Issues:
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 The imperative of European emancipation ...
Legislative decisions create laws. The application of the law is the responsibity of the judiciary working through a court system. Judges have to take decisions in judging cases and yet much legislation is not well conceived and in law open to abuse resulting in arbitrary decisions creating unjustified prejudice for innocents. In Britain the jury system has had a seminal role in advancing human rights and it embodies an approach to legal decisions which above all is designed to permit freely formed decisions by a group of citizens to defend the freedom of the innocent and prevent arbitrary decisions. Political parties have worked over the centuries to get rid of juries. Emancipation consider this to be a serious mistake. Why not review the reasons why juries need to be preserved and even extended in application by visiting the Leading Issues section on juries:
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Devolutionary trade-offs ...
  Legislative decisions create laws. The application of the law is the responsibity of the judiciary working through a court system. Judges have to take decisions in judging cases and yet much legislation is not well conceived and in law open to abuse resulting in arbitrary decisions creating unjustified prejudice for innocents. In Britain the jury system has had a seminal role in advancing human rights and it embodies an approach to legal decisions which above all is designed to permit freely formed decisions by a group of citizens to defend the freedom of the innocent and prevent arbitrary decisions. Political parties have worked over the centuries to get rid of juries. Emancipation consider this to be a serious mistake. Why not review the reasons why juries need to be preserved and even extended in application by visiting the Leading Issues section on juries:
Emancipation ... the removal of constraints through the devolution of power ....
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  Community development....
Legislative decisions create laws. The application of the law is the responsibity of the judiciary working through a court system. Judges have to take decisions in judging cases and yet much legislation is not well conceived and in law open to abuse resulting in arbitrary decisions creating unjustified prejudice for innocents. In Britain the jury system has had a seminal role in advancing human rights and it embodies an approach to legal decisions which above all is designed to permit freely formed decisions by a group of citizens to defend the freedom of the innocent and prevent arbitrary decisions. Political parties have worked over the centuries to get rid of juries. Emancipation consider this to be a serious mistake. Why not review the reasons why juries need to be preserved and even extended in application by visiting the Leading Issues section on juries:
Community development .... paricipatroy governance ....
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1 Leading Issues is an intiativeof Agence presse Européenne created in collaboration with Emancipation Magazine, The E-mancipation Movement and Real News. |
