Sentences with phrase «under the current system politics»
Voters readily accept that under the current system politics can be bought by large donations, and support measures to curb this.
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Under our current system of representative politics, voters are permitted to play a role once every five years and are then expected to let their elected MP get on with the job of politicking on their behalf.
Jon Cruddas, the Dagenham MP who narrowly missed out on the deputy Labour leadership last year, said the crisis required «radical shock treatment», adding: «The way to do that is to introduce proportional representation and a system of fair votes to replace the current arrangement under which a few thousand swing votes have an armlock around the body politic.»
It seems to me that our problem has a lot less to do with the mechanics of solar power than the politics of human power — specifically whether there can be a shift in who wields it, a shift away from corporations and toward communities, which in turn depends on whether or not the great many people who are getting a rotten deal under our current system can build a determined and diverse enough social force to change the balance of power.