Voting TaKtiX

Right, when I decided I wanted to run a blog, I knew I’d need at least one other person involved in order to keep it going. Having a pretty good friend who I agree with on most issues, who happened to be completing his Masters Degree in Critical Global Studies (which is posh for Political Theory/Philosophy) and a good writer was fortuitous, getting him to agree to post stuff here was cool.

So, on the grounds that I post so often his stuff gets swamped (and sometimes people credit me for the entire blog anyway without noticing the byline), I though, given that I’m feeling all grotty with a cold, I’d do a summary for his stuff.
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Rule 1 of blogging: quoting yourself incessently is bad. Rule 2: Letting someone else take credit for something you said is worse. In a comment to this post I said:

You’re not alone… Representative democracy is an essential tool for a tolerant society, direct democracy leads to great thinkers drinking hemlock at the whim of the populace.

And, to answer Paulie’s question, as far as I know it’s original. And no, you can’t steal it ;-) Use it freely though.
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So, Dave wants me to join him does he? I appear to be his target audience, a sometime LibDem who believes it’s more important to defeat NuLab than to continue the old rivalries. He’s saying the right things, I remain to be convinced if he’s doing them. But, well, I’m not convinced that joining his party is for me. Scratch that, I refuse to consider it. He wants an end to petty point scoring in politics? Fine, let’s talk. Openly, honestly, and with a perspective on both history, the future and on how things work. (more…)