Gordon Brown speech to the National Council of Voluntary Organisations

Gordon Brown speech to the National Council of Voluntary Organisations; - Change happens when we involve people who are rarely involved and want to do more than cast a vote at elections, change happens when we enhance rather than constrain democracy at the local grass roots level / And I want to propose new ways of reaching out today, reaching out so that voices outside my party are heard and that means voices outside normal political processes, for politics cannot resume in new ways without recognising the need to engage people of no party as well - So here is the outline of some initial proposals / In the constitutional statement before the summer I suggested how the Executive should give up power to the legislator and that both the Executive and the law-making body must be more closely in touch with the British people, I now have three proposals that enable us to reach out beyond governing parties and strengthen the link between people and parliament, citizens, communities and government - First, if we are to meet the challenge of engagement the old models of consultation need radical renewal, while they have been useful in shaping policies we have come nowhere near realising the potential of the public to make better policies, I am determined that the wisdom and experience that resides within the British people will be better put to use in the future / Now in the old days when politicians went round the country the principal method of communication was political party speeches from platforms, more recently this country opened up to question and answer sessions where politicians went round the country offering to do questions and then answers, and often, I admit at least in my case, the answers from the politicians were far longer than the questions / Now we need new ways and means to bring together citizens to discuss both specific challenges that need addressing, and concrete proposals that we can discuss for change, we have already taken the step of publi...
Gordon Brown speech to the National Council of Voluntary Organisations; - Change happens when we involve people who are rarely involved and want to do more than cast a vote at elections, change happens when we enhance rather than constrain democracy at the local grass roots level / And I want to propose new ways of reaching out today, reaching out so that voices outside my party are heard and that means voices outside normal political processes, for politics cannot resume in new ways without recognising the need to engage people of no party as well - So here is the outline of some initial proposals / In the constitutional statement before the summer I suggested how the Executive should give up power to the legislator and that both the Executive and the law-making body must be more closely in touch with the British people, I now have three proposals that enable us to reach out beyond governing parties and strengthen the link between people and parliament, citizens, communities and government - First, if we are to meet the challenge of engagement the old models of consultation need radical renewal, while they have been useful in shaping policies we have come nowhere near realising the potential of the public to make better policies, I am determined that the wisdom and experience that resides within the British people will be better put to use in the future / Now in the old days when politicians went round the country the principal method of communication was political party speeches from platforms, more recently this country opened up to question and answer sessions where politicians went round the country offering to do questions and then answers, and often, I admit at least in my case, the answers from the politicians were far longer than the questions / Now we need new ways and means to bring together citizens to discuss both specific challenges that need addressing, and concrete proposals that we can discuss for change, we have already taken the step of publi...
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