The Power Inquiry of 2004 -2006 - a document that provides a framework for egalitarian democracy.

The Power Inquiry Report : free download
The Power Inquiry of 2004 -2006 predicted what has been happening politically and suggested a series of shifts and changes to devolve political decision making to the general population through structural changes across a range of areas of engagement to resist and resolve the problems of political dominance of Wealth as Power, in favour of the population at large.

I often cite it as a useful and substantive document for my readers to study and understand, and to also recount why the leading political party leaders declared it was 'impractical' (a dismissive comment without any detailed analysis as to why it would be impractical..) even though they attended the conference in February 2006 and praised it as an important initiative - Ed Milliband, Menzies Campbell and David Cameron gave laudatory speeches at that conference, I was there, I heard their speeches.
Here is a brief overview of the report from the respected website of OpenDemocracy, written by Pamy Giddy, a Director of The Power Inquiry..

The Power inquiry, an independent investigation into the condition of democracy in Britain, was set up in 2004. The members of its commission (chaired by Helena Kennedy) hosted meetings around Britain and heard submissions from a wide variety of interest groups, professionals, and concerned citizens. The commission published its report on 27 February 2006: 

"After eighteen months of investigation, the final report of Power is a devastating critique of the state of formal democracy in Britain. Many of us actively support campaigns such as Greenpeace or the Countryside Alliance. And millions more take part in charity or community work. But political parties and elections have been a growing turn-off for years. 

The cause is not apathy. The problem is that we don't feel we have real influence over the decisions made in our name. The need for a solution is urgent. And that solution is radical. Nothing less than a major programme of reform to give power back to the people of Britain..."

I remind my readers, repetition I know, that the very next week after the conference, all of the political leaders who praised it at the conference cast it as being 'impractical'..... without explanation or analyse..... they publicly dismissed the report, ever so casually. I think we know why.

Read the full Report : https://www.jrrt.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/PowertothePeople_001-2006.pdf

Share it widely, it provides a substantive framework for the work we are all calling for.
As an aside, here's an interesting thought I often think...

I often think about how dismantling castles, pyramids, etc... as these are all monuments to Wealth as Power ( cruel and exploitative cult, no matter which one one examines) and reusing the stone to build genuinely long term social housing whilst training up a new batch of stone workers who could recycle old stone until all the monuments to Wealth as Power were converted to community housing projects.... and how THAT would be a superb way of addressing the harms caused by Wealth as Power...

Each site could have a small dwelling built as an archeological, anthropological and social museum recording the cruelty and arrogance of Wealth as Power, thus recording and preserving the History accurately.

Lol!

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Corneilius

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