Improvements to party manifesto's and the political system?

its basically the method any sane management would use to evaluate a
proposal or project... only in this case the people are the management...
the voters.... for one very very brief instant in any 4-5 years the
people get their say... without, I posit, really knowing what they are
voting for..... only having the vaguest notions of what the parties stand
for... very much influenced by what newspaper they read.... or in the
states and increasingly so here, what "news" channel you watch... is Fox
"news" still proscribed in this country as its not really a news channel
at all..... ?

1. First the voters require a common list prepared by all interested
parties (i.e. people/parties who intend to field candidates) of all the
foreseeable problems the country and the world faces now/at the point of
the next election/during the term of next election.

sorted into some kind of agreed order of importance and grouped according
to topic, perhaps leave the ordering to each party in their manifesto as
people will have different priorities, but also provide a merged
manifesto that has each common problem listed followed by each parties
proposed course of action, all in one place, and that is crucial for any
analytical decision making.

each local candidate (and getting together locally as a group to merge
the list of problems) also provides a section regarding their own
constituencies particular problems. This would apply to local council
elections as well, but without need for national policy section.

2. this agreed list of problems is then circulated to all parties and
then they put their ideas about causes and solutions to the problems
creating their own manifesto but using the list of commonly agreed
problems as specified above, and furthermore most importantly ensuring
they address all the problems from the common list of problems and assign
them a relative importance for the candidate in the case of local issues
and the party on national issues.

These manifestos are then merged by a government agency from word limited
summaries provided by the candidates/parties and proof read and agreed by
all parties, to provide a document (localised as well probably best done
by a contract with the local printers, penalties for errors to discourage
tampering and sabotage of a parties summaries...) available at the
newsagents to be published 3 to 6 months before an election.

3. This then forms the basis upon which the voters can make an informed
choice about who best represents them, and whether the national policies
of a party supersedes for any individual what a candidate proposes for
their locality...

This may also go some way, due to a documented plan available to the
voter being in existence, to prevent ruling political parties doing just
whatever they like when they get into parliament/councils with no
accountability or documented history of where they fail to meet
objectives and plans they defined in the manifesto...

OK some method must be there to document changes in circumstances as well
to allow fairness... a report to the public published bi-annually or so,
of progress versus plan commented on equally by all parties, available to
the public in newsagents like a newspaper would be... if people want to
take an interest, make it easy to do so, and take away some of the press'
influence on who's stories people get to hear... provide an equal
platform for all parties.... (OK practically probably have to limit it to
top 5 parties on the annual report publication aspect, but not the 4-5
year manifesto aspect at the point of election, which needs all
candidates to contribute their ideas...)

call this report publication "The Political Solution Report" or
something... let the newsagents have a slice of the proceeds as well.

PPPPP as the old adage says....

proper planning prevents piss poor performance.....

look before you leap... etc.
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