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Definitely local votes for local issues.

And I’ve always felt that low voter engagement has a lot more to do with our lack of real power. Many years ago I stood as a parish councillor in my Essex village, as much to force a vote as to get myself on the council. I and a friend tried to visit every home in the village. And people voted and there was a lot more engagement in that 4 year term. And then I got voted off, which was also good - I supported the “wrong” side in a controversial issue - that’s democracy. And the council achieved a lot in that time.

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I feel you’re being a bit partial about your definition of politics (understandably given the current state of play). The root is polis - city, and that is maybe the real problem. If our politics was local, and we knew our politicians personally, things might be very different. What I feel panocracy lacks is a real town square ie a physical space where all the members of a polis can gather, in the flesh, and thrash out their problems.

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