City council elections, 1 May
From:
dermot dobson
Date:
May 04 10:47 UTC
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Julia comments:
>Here is a cheaper suggestion - we should turn the election into a raffle.
>Everyone who votes will be entered into a prize draw, and the winner will be
>allowed to overturn one City or County Council policy of their choice.
I rather like that idea - certainly far better than either payment or
compulsion - we've already got far too much of those!
But what reward should we give for bothering to vote at general elections?
Removing 10 items from the statute, perhaps? Sometimes, it seems impossible to
step out of one's own front door without breaking one regulation or another -
or, come to that, remaining in one's own home.
Perhaps an even bigger 'bonus' for MEP elections?
Don't even get me started on EU legislation - a typically wrong-headed
Directive from the EU (started, I believe, by a German welders union) almost
made it on the books this month. This Directive was planned to 'save' us all
from the (largely) non-existent dangers of exposure to magnetic fields in the
workplace - if enacted, it would have banned pretty much all use of medical MRI
scanners throughout Europe.
http://www.medicexchange.com/mall/departmentpage.cfm/MedicExchangeUSA/_81675/1542/departments-contentview
http://www.senseaboutscience.org.uk/index.php/site/project/23
This would have included the 12 MRI scanners (installed value totalling perhaps
£20M) currently operating or planned in the various Headington hospitals -
which would have been an incredible waste of taxpayer's money.
Fortunately there is a 4 year stay of execution, I hope common sense prevails
in the meantime.
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