I was recently interviewed by Mark Thompson for ‘The House of Comments’ podcast about my book ‘Save Democracy – Abolish Voting’.
I hope you find time to listen to it, but if you’re looking for a very short verbal summary of what it’s about (85 secs!), it can be found starting at 16min:20secs in (finishing at 17min:45secs).
My latest, in The Independent today.
TL;DR version:
1) leaving the EU could work
2) deciding to do so with a referendum guarantees it won’t & will also be damaging
3) using a 2nd referendum to exit #Brexit would make a v bad situation even worse
4) Exit-Brexit is a job for parliament alonehttps://t.co/c4mgZacdsf— Paul Evans (@Paul0Evans1) December 18, 2017
I’ve just published this:
“There is a direct link between [the failure of representative democracy] and the degree to which plebiscitary democracy is seen as being an acceptable option. The popularity of referendums is a symptom more than it is the cause of our current problems.”
It’s here:
“Putin didn’t steal anything. We just left the doors open and went on holiday”?—?https://t.co/OFJJo9t2Ec pic.twitter.com/4tgxZru0LZ
— (((Paul Evans))) (@Paul0Evans1) December 14, 2016
I published this on Medium earlier today.
“This is bad. Very bad” Trying to restore faith in politics damages democracy. https://t.co/4D3nTY3D2j pic.twitter.com/FxpPaK43UH
— (((Paul Evans))) (@Paul0Evans1) July 6, 2016