Reply To: Our Euroelection campaign

As an after thought, anyone who witnessed the Scottish 2014 referendum could not miss the involvement of so many normally non-pollical particiapants in the campaign.

For the first time in their lives, people believed their single vote meant something and would have an influence in the outcome, unlike the normal run-of-the-mill elections. They were empowered and became involved, either passively with badges and stickers declaring their allegiance to either yes or no camps, but in the High St, campaigners were busy, with side by side stalls.

A knock-on effect that even when eventually defeated the separatists are still organized and active outside of the SNP party structure with regular protest marches to keep their aspirations alive.

I was not in the UK to see if the EU referendum was similar but I imagine a similar feeling existed of your say being heeded and explains the anger of the Brexiteers being presently side-lined on discovery that they are being ignored.

My point is that when people take personal possession of the political process, they do in fact feel that they own it and don’t give it away as they do in general and local elections…Something we can build upon with our delegatory form of democracy, when we say the people issue instructions to be followed and not politicians to interpret what we want for us