The riots of late have proved that self-organisation doesn’t always work. It produces results we don’t like. The same goes with politics but as a democracy we tolerate it. The parties are hated by either side and they’re the culprits for bringing it together.
The idea of electoral reform however is a different approach to it. There may be nefarious elements inside parties that seek to disrupt without a word spoken. This leads to calls for tightening of regulation over what counts as participation and by whom.
It doesn’t stand that any party – left or right – is able to operate on a basis of scant regulation and only scrutiny by controversy. Since there’s little room for regular reviews due to fears of a police state, there are fewer ideas on the table to start with.
The insurgent Reform UK are not an answer to this problem but to a different one, and they only add to the fray. There’s reason to believe people participate here wilfully rather than intelligently. The media realms encourage “gotcha” moments by way of redress.
In future, to avoid protests that tear apart our streets and divide families it may prove productive to scrutinise participation. It doesn’t carry to just look a particular way or rebuke a specific person. Surely our politics needs to be sophisticated for outcomes to be more intelligent.
