We’re looking for short-ish essays on the subject of ‘a political innovation I would like to propose’.
We love open-source thinking
These should not be longer than 450 words. We are looking for innovations that will not be rejected out-of-hand by readers of any of our partner blogs – either Left Foot Forward or Lib-Dem Voice, The Daily Telegraph website or any of the other sites that get involved with the project. All of these sites will either be carrying the final essays or reviewing them in some way.
We acknowledge that there are important innovations that wouldn’t be accepted by a sizeable part of the political class, but we’re keen to find ideas that will not meet this kind of resistance.Your idea must go beyond saying ‘it would be nice if someone would…’ – instead, it has to propose a course of action. Say what action you want to take and what kind of collaborators – what skill-sets – you are looking for. Use as many links as you like to make your point, and remember, evangelism is important. You will need to really sell your idea if you want to inspire others to work with you on it.
We will invite essayists to present their ideas at public events in the autumn and you will be able to use these sessions to recruit partners, collaborators, sponsors or even customers for your idea. Our aim is to give practical expression to political innovations – ideas that can game-change politics – get it out of one of the many cul-de-sacs that it has allowed itself to be backed into.
Please e-mail your draft essay to Mick Fealty using this spam-proof link or call us to sound your idea out. Once we’ve looked at it, we’ll send you instructions on how you can post it all.
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Here is my post on the subject of political innovation – entitled a new form of socialism, more catchily know as “Get out More”. Here goes “The way things are going we are being incentivised to adopt a stay in at home culture. In comparison to alternatives like going out to a pub, club, entertainment or sport venue staying at home talking to your “friends” through a social network on the web or WAP phone, eating a TV dinner and watching premium entertainment or sports events on the television is incerdibly expensive. Once we have paid for your broadband connection and Sky Subscription or have your Clubcard it is economically rational to use it to the full. The end result is we spend less and less time in each others company, we forget how enjoyable it was to meet real people, to find common interests, to entertainment and inform each other, and most importantly to collaborate with other in things that require physical as well as mental effort. Crucially we get an ever widening gap between the generations, the wisdom of the old is not passed on to the young and the exuberance a vitality of youth becomes a cause for fear rather amongst the older generations rather a regenerating. We need to reverse this trend we need to get out more, and we need a whole raft of policies aimed at enabling and incenstivising social interaction. To set the ball rolling here are some things that can be done to rebalance the equation – reduce VAT on eating and drinking in licensed premises, significantly increase VAT on alcohol purchased from supermarkets and reduce the hours at which they can sell it. Remove performing rights society levies and provide tax incentives for venues offering live music, theatre, poetry, and sports events etc and apply a heavy levy on subscription based entertainment provided for home use. I’ll leave it at that for the time being other to say that if we want a socialist society we need to encourage socialising.
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