UD Voting & Its Huge Benefits

Minimising Election Risk & Maximising Effective Policy Delivery

At present, General Elections are events of high socioeconomic risk. With a long history of broken -promises – even of harmful, ill-considered fiscal policy. Of parties failing to deliver election “pledges” when faced with a real-world reality of government. All this changes under Unified Democracy – starting with Manifestos.

How Manifests Change under Unified Democracy

Under all current systems of Representative Democracy, manifestos consist of sets of hard-and-fast sets of “Take It all or Leave It All” policies. So that, in voting, we accept that to get policies we want, we may be forced to accept others we don’t.

Under UD things work very differently and much more democratically. Because policy always defaults to being strategically-continuous from the previous Administration. Because, if something works – there’s no need to change it.

Manifestos therefore change accordingly – now becoming sets of Policy Proposals. Both for taxation , and for changes proposed across each of the 13 Sectors of our Economy (Citizenship / Immigration, Healthcare, Energy, Water Supply, Education, etc). Therefore, there’s no longer a need for a Party to contest all sectors – only to stand for election for those sectors they wish to contest (and its taxation impacts).

This stable and democratic approach de-risks elections and assists voter choice. The Party elected into power no longer having the say-all over everything – but most influence by virtue of the most votes. Policy now formed and debated strategically on a sector-by-sector basis within a framework of centralised coordination and budgetary control – ensuring each sector always has the best available policies.

How UD Voting Works Better than PR Systems

Under UD, we retain our existing simple Voting System and MP/Constituency structure. However, Government (never a coalition), is now formed by the Party with the Highest National Vote – rather than by FPTP. However when we vote (by a single “X” on the slip), we are no longer voting for just one representative – but for two.

Our First Representative is for our chosen MP – to represent our Constituency in The Commons (elected just as today).

Our Second Representative is for a Politician – to form and represent the policies of our chosen Party. Under Unified Democracy, Politicians are more senior than ordinary MPs – a total of 230 (an average of 20 for each of 13 Sectors) being proposed. They are those Candidates with the highest percentages of their Party’s Constituency Vote – in proportion to its Overall National Vote. For example, if our chosen Party won 10% of the National Vote, it would have 23 elected Politicians.

So, under Unified Democracy, optimum proportionality is achieved, both in Citizen and Policy Representation. It retains a simple, easily-understood voting system, together with a capability for effectively managing and coordinating an almost unlimited number of political parties – under a strong, single-Party Executive. Goals that no current systems of PR are capable of effectively achieving.

The 8 Huge Benefits of the UD Voting & Policy Establishment

Unified Democracy’s new, sector-structured format of policy establishment immediately brings with it a number of substantial benefits – all necessary for a better and safer future – yet practicably unattainable – either within our current system or those of PR. These are easiest understood under 8 headings.

1 – Driving National Unity & Restored Public Faith in Government

Because people would know that the policies they voted for will be proportionately reflected in Government, transition to Unfired Democracy will depolarize our society, driving National Unity and a common sense of purpose – essential for the kind of rebirth the UK must now have.

The new principles of manifestos and of voting will help make both empty slogan-based politics and “Broken Promises” become things of the Past. Elections now running at minimum socioeconomic risk – maximizing delivery of properly-informed strategically-continuous Policy. All these things contributing to restored faith in Government and protecting the erosion of our Democracy.

2 – Less Reliance on Ministers – Sector-Focussed Public Accountability

Each sector of our economy now becomes managed not by a single Minister, but by a team called a “Sector Management Group” that he/she leads. Each SMG consisting of electorally-proportionality-assigned Politicians, together with an equal number of Sector Representatives -with equal voting rights.

Each of these SMGs becomes the centre of policy, performance- management and of public accountability for that sector. So if things go well (for our Healthcare for example) – we know who to thank. If things don’t – then we know who to blame and replace.

3 – Strategic Continuity Across Administrations

Strategic Continuity of Government is achieved by the offset deployment of politicians and Sector Representatives, each passing knowledge and know-how from each Administration to the next. Countering the waste and disruption of yo-yo politics that undermines our businesses in planning to empoy people to grow our economy.

4 – High Concurrency & Policy Formation & Countering Silo Government

The new SMG structure provides wide-bandwidth for concurrent formation of policy across all sectors of our economy, whilst better enabling effective coordination (e.g. between Energy and Transpiration, Technology & Healthcare etc).

Countering silo government and ensuring that the different sectors of our economy and public services work seamlessly together. Minimising policy development timeframes and reinforcing a much higher level of long-term policy integrity.

5 – Better Planning & Coordination of Skill & Resource Needs

The SMG structure better enables the prediction of the upcoming skills needed in each sector of our economy (Housing / Construction, Healthcare, Farming, Technology etc) enabling these needs to be better aligned with the Education Sector. 

Better assuring the ongoing availability of required resources and skills needed to sustain and grow our economy and better enabling our young people to enter the career ladder of their choice. By the same token, refining our Immigration Strategies as and when additional skills and resources become needed.

6 – Party Performance Informs Voting & Drives Better Government

Because Government effectively becomes a policy-competitive meritocracy, the better-performing Parties (in getting their proposals into law), becoming apparent to the public. Better informing their future voting intentions – exponentially increasing the trustworthiness and efficiency of government.

7 – Truly Effective Checks & Balances & Public Accountability

Unified Democracy introduces a revised 3-Tier structure of government (from Constituencies up to the Cabinet), so each Tier effectivity holds the one above it in check.  Enabling those seen to be poorly performing within each Tier to be more easily replaced.

8 – Promoting Peer-To-Peer Sector-Level Inter-State Cooperation

The concept of ongoing SMGs (only loosely tied to the political stance of a state at any given time), drives stability and better enables peer to peer cooperation at the sector level – ultimately across states for common solutions for common problems.

The only viable means to manage ecological and climate degradation, Technology / AI development, Social Media Control, Defence and Pandemic Management. All necessities for a better and safer future.

In Summary

A Government both stabilizing and unifying in an unstable world – to generate economic growth by an informed and strategically continuous “working together” ethos and to deliver policy with far higher levels of assurance for enduring benefits. Bringing our infrastructures and Public Services back where they need to be – and keeping them there.

A world where our safety and prosperity depend on working together — locally, nationally, and between states. Of increasing importance in an Era increasingly shaped by hard-power geopolitics and climate and eco-system degradation.