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DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICAN ROADSHOWS
TAKING POLITICS OUT INTO THE STREETS
With British politics in total disarray there has never been a better time to break the mould.
We are starting our General Election 2015 Campaign now, with a series of ongoing street Roadshows up and down the country.
WE WILL REACH OUT TO THE PEOPLE EVERYWHERE
We need your support.
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DRP Newsletter - 100th Edition
Towards Election 2015
Peter Kellow writes
I wrote in last week’s newsletter:
“… at last it looks like we may have reached a pivotal moment where the democratic support for austerity will be tested. In May we will see:
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Local elections in many areas of Britain
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The French will have the chance to boot out Sarkozy at the final round of the presidential election next Sunday
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The Irish will have a referendum on the European Stability Pact at the end of the month”
Well, we know the results of the first two. A resounding dismissal of the politics of austerity, first in the Kingdom, and then in the Republic of France
The policy of squeezing the nation to bailout the banks for their dodgy, but highly profitable, lending practices is now on the back foot.
George Osborne has vowed to stick to austerity come what may. But at some point the penny will drop that this is political suicide. If he has any doubt about that he might like to have a chat with ex-President Nicholas Sarkozy
Later this month the Irish people will deliver their verdict on the European Stability Pact. But by that time it is almost certain to be a dead letter. So the disarray and collapse will continue with no end in sight
This 100th edition of the newsletter was to have been a look at the history of republicanism and banking in Britain. History is vital to the understanding of the present, particularly for Britain, which has such a long and distinguished republican history. But the events overtaking us are more urgent for the minute and so the history can wait just a little while
More urgent was to update the website to get us fighting fit to take on the task thrust upon us.
The next general election in Britain will almost certainly be in three years time in May of 2015. The Democratic Republican Party must make a significant splash at that time. For that we must plan now
I have been impressed by the way that much of the French Presidential Campaign happened in the streets see newsletter no 98. Even when François Hollande addressed the people following his victory he did so from an outdoor stage in a square in his home town. The media presence was discreet and so he was able to come across as directly talking to the people.
No doubt it was highly pre-orchestrated but nevertheless it gave off the positive signal that politics must talk directly to the people where he finds them, where they go about their lives.
We plan to take the DRP campaign out into the streets with a series of Roadshows up and down the country. See home page right column. That way we can talk to people and listen and explain. We will give speeches throughout the day and perhaps throw in a bit of entertainment. But all will be seriously directed towards creating and instilling the hope and vision for the future that is so desperately lacking in people’s lives.
We will show how the policies of Democratic Republicanism and Democratic Sovereign Money will make Britain a prosperous and happy nation, and a model for the rest of the tired out world, still grinding along lead by archaic, clapped-out, economic and political dogmas
The process of revamping the website has begun so do give it a look. But the internet is only an adjunct to the real time activity we need.
And to deliver the new political force in 2015 that the people are so desperate for we need resources.
This is why we are launching an appeal so that the Roadshows programme can be fully rolled out. Look out for it in your town!
Our target for 2012 is to collect £5000 - a modest price to pay for helping to secure our future
So please give generously now. We cannot do this without your support. To donate go to home page and scroll down right column
And, let’s face it. In any of the current main party’s hands the future can never be secured.
All of them are spent forces mired in the baggage of failed policies, subservience to Big Finance, betrayal, corruption, sleaze and bad leadership.
Look around! The DRP may be just beginning. But there is nothing else that will free us from unprecedented massive burden of social and economic injustice we all carry.
The DRP is neither of the right or left. The supposed carriers of right and left politics have betrayed their supporters. Both have kowtowed to global finance and the unrooted, freebooting superrich and hopelessly lost their way.
The Labour Party and Conservative Party have wrought havoc on the public services plunging the nation into terrifying debt and sold productive businesses down the river crucifying them with high tax and regulation
On the publication of this 100th edition of the newsletter, the party has now been in the making since 2008.
We are now ready to position ourselves to make a crucial impact
Don’t wait. Join us. Donate to us. Work with us!
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What is Republicanism?
The three kinds of Republicanism
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The word "republicanism" has been used at various times to mean different things, but there remain three essential usages.
The three usages are not mutually exclusive but indicate the a successive narrowing of the scope. Starting with the broadest meaning, these are:
design the constitution so as to create a just relationship between all citizens. Constitutional republicans recognise that a primary danger all societies face is the development of excessive power in the hands of its leader or leaders (executive) which then threatens the goal of justice. This concentration of power is avoided (a) by creating separate institutions of government having separate powers and (b) by rotating executive offices. Monarchy is incompatible with (b) and so anti-monarchism inherently forms part of constitutional republicanism.
3. Anti-Monarchist Republicanism.
Anti-Monarchist or Anti-Royalist Republicanism concerns mainly this last aspect of constitutional republicanism: the desire to abolish the constitutional monarchy. Anti-Monarchism is often motivated by the sense of outright injustice represented by having an inheritary head of state and by the pernicious effect that this
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1.Civic Republicanism.
Civic Republicanism embodies an ancient concept of republicanism that goes back to Cicero and Aristotle. Civic Republicans start by arguing that in order to achieve a good society we need to encourage virtue. This begs the question: how can we create virtue in a secular society? In a religious societies virtue was encouraged by the expectation of reward in the afterlife but clearly this will not do in a "modern" secular society. Civic Republicans argue that virtue can be encouraged in a secular society by correctly designing our institutions. These institutions can be divided into (a) institutions that make up the government and (b) the institutions that make up the civil society.
2. Constitutional Republicanism.
Constitutional Republicanism concerns itself primarily with (a), the institutions that make up the government, that is to say, the constitution. Its goal is to
has on the whole of society from top to bottom. Matters concerning royal extravagance, unfair tax advantages and the expense of the civil list also motivate anti-Monarchist feeling. All these arguments are important to a Republican Party but it must also look beyond abolition to the kind of society we want. Abolition will represent a one chance to fix many ills. We cannot lose that opportunity..
A Single issue Party Will Not Do
Single issue parties exist. But, for a party to be long lasting and for it to lay down a tradition, it must embrace the whole range of issues that society faces. For this reason the Republican Party must include Civic Republicanism and Constitutional Republicanism. It must advocate the abolition of the constitutional role of the monarchy, but its primary focus has to be the construction of the society and the constitution that follows abolition.
THE PARTY TO END OUR MEDIAEVAL MONARCHY
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An End to a Head of State
Chosen by Royal Bloodline
How is it that in the 21st century the British Head of State is still a Mediaeval Monarch? Everywhere we see the pernicious effect this archaic institution has on the life and politics of the country.
The fact of having a head of state chosen by birth enshrines privilege and inherited wealth as a basic principle of government. This percolates down through society from top to bottom, resulting in all forms of injustice and opportunities denied for the rest of us
The DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICAN PARTY is the party that stands for the removal of the monarchy. But we are much more than that.
We will implement a full Republican Constitution embodying tried and tested republican principles to ensure justice for all.
And we will see an End to the Power of Banks and Big Finance to control individuals, businesses and government, with a radical policy of Monetary Reform
We will formulate a full republican manifesto to create a society of Virtue, Freedom, Aspiration, Wealth and Peace for all
WHO WE ARE
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The DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC PARTY is for the creation of a truly Democratic Republic in Britain with the Head of State an Independently Elected President and a Written Constitution.
We are currently run by a Steering Committee of seven . View Committee here
We have enshrined in our constitution FOUR BASIC PRINCIPLES that define what we are and what we stand for as follows
ONE: A PRESIDENT WITH REAL POWER TO REPLACE THE MONARCH
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The office of Prime Minister was described as an “elective dictatorship” not by a republican but by Tory, Lord Hailsham. He was speaking in 1979 but since then things have got much worse
Historian David Starkey has said that the House of Commons is now “absolutely dominated” by the office of Prime Minister
The only way to break that concentration of power is the republican solution of dividing it between separately elected offices each with real power
Under the Republic the Head of State will be a President with real power directly elected democratically by the people.
The House of Commons for the first time will itself have real power for the President will not be able to control it as the Prime Minister does now
With this Separation of Power neither the President nor the Commons will have the unbridled power that the Prime Minister currently has to do what he or she wants with our lives.
The office of British President will not closely resemble that of the US president or that of any other existing Republic for it will reflect British traditions and character
The result will be more responsive, more democratic government
TWO: RADICAL MONETARY REFORM
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THE POWER OF BANKS
Any prosperous economy requires the creation of a certain amount of new money. Britain in common with all modern western economies hands this power to private banks. This they use not for the benefit of the people and productive businesses but to make untold amounts of money for themselves.
Their unscrupulous exploitation of the weakness of government in the face of the money power they wield has plunged Britain and the rest of the world into the greatest economic crisis of our times.
But politicians do nothing significant to address this central problem of our economy
The DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICAN PARTY will put money creation in the hands of the government with an independent constitutional body in charge of maintaining a money supply appropriate to the state of the economy
The bank created interest burden will be drastically reduced resulting in increased prosperity and low taxes
THREE: A FEDERAL CONSTITUTION
The Union of the present Kingdom is visibly falling apart with separatist tendencies becoming more and more forceful - particularly in Scotland but also in Wales. Meanwhile, the regions of England continue to suffer from a centuries-old domination by the centre at London.
The North, the Midlands and the West of the country have seen their industries and agriculture decimated and huge numbers of their populations deprived or left near destitute whilst all power and wealth is concentrated in London.
The DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICAN PARTY will created autonomous regions based on a Federal Constitution and give these the right to develop according to their own character, history, economic strengths and aspiration
Each Autonomous Region will have the same constitution and the same constitutional relation to the centre
Thus the union will become stronger and more prosperous than ever with regional aspiration guaranteed
FOUR: VOTING REFORM
We recognize the iniquities of the present First-Past-The-Post voting system whereby vast swathes of the electorate are deprived on any influence on the result. This is not democracy
We recognize that the current alternatives proposed such as proportional representation and alternative votes produce weak ineffective parliaments and deny direct representation by one known MP.
The alternative proposed to First-Past-The-Post in the referendum of 2010 was firmly rejected by the electorate
We therefore propose a new system that will eliminate the evils of all these currently proposed voting systems
We propose a system that makes every single vote count, guarantees that each constituency has a single representative answerable to its constituents and provides stable government
For a New Beginning
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Rediscovering the Great British Republican Tradition
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