Vote for Genealogy

[trystan]

Paul,

No, I'll leave "social engineering" for the newspapers. Let's bring manufacturing and innovation back...

Rob,

I helped with the baling when I was a child, I didn't get hurt much

Trystan 

[Boongie Pam]

I have a secret to tell but you have to promise not to tell anyone else... It is in your best interest.

Since the age of 6 I have quietly gone about my life knowing I will be running the country one day.  By any means necerssary.

I make no threat, just the promise.

You see, I always know best.  Always have.  Even when I'm wrong it's in your best interests.

Anyway besides that, the poor offerings in the current political landscape need a bit of kicking into touch.  None deserve my vote.

I think the from a purely genealogical viewpoint I have the opposite view to most of you.  I want to be charged a fair price for accessing records.  I think I should pay if I am provided a service.  The money I pay to access records I want ploughed into indexing, online databases, support services. I'm looking forward to the new Scotland Family History Centre when it opens.

Non-genealogical...
National Service - I'd have that back straight away.  Not the old kind. One where we have to work for the nation. 3 years of cleaning the streets, landscaping parks, running community centres etc.  You can do it anytime between the ages of 16 and 35 and you can do it a year at a time.  

I have worked all this out to the nth degree by the way...

Pam surveys her lands...

[RJ_Paton]

I'm looking forward to the new Scotland Family History Centre when it opens.

Obviously a person who takes the very long view 

Non-genealogical...
National Service - I'd have that back straight away.  Not the old kind. One where we have to work for the nation. 3 years of cleaning the streets, landscaping parks, running community centres etc.  You can do it anytime between the ages of 16 and 35 and you can do it a year at a time.

You'd never get it through the House of Lards .... after all we must be careful fo everybody's rights   

[Boongie Pam]

Non-genealogical...
National Service - I'd have that back straight away.  Not the old kind. One where we have to work for the nation. 3 years of cleaning the streets, landscaping parks, running community centres etc.  You can do it anytime between the ages of 16 and 35 and you can do it a year at a time.

You'd never get it through the House of Lards .... after all we must be careful fo everybody's rights   

That's ok everyone has the right to give up 3 years to absolute benefit of the whole community.  Anyone who disagrees - up against the wall.

Oops I better be careful...

P

[trystan]

Whoohoo - this topic could become a right "hot potato" if we're not too careful (there's me with my "Admin Hat" on and sunglasses). 

"bring back national service - it would have taught me a good lesson"

[saar3]

Here's a few vote winners

Future birth certificates to contain names of all 4 grandparents as well as parents.

Census to be held every 5 years. No one allowed to be away from home on census night. House arrest for anyone who fails to complete census form. All British passport holders living overseas to be required to complete a census form

Census information from 1911 and 1921 to be put online immediately

Proper hereditary peers to be brought back to House of Lords - I just loved all those dotty disputes over succession

[D ap D]

Anyway besides that, the poor offerings in the current political landscape need a bit of kicking into touch.  None deserve my vote.

I agree with you there, I still go to vote, but I usually put a line through the voting slip. Our ancestors fought hard enough for the right to vote, so we should make the most of it. How we vote is a different matter.

I think that all people who don't vote at, say, 3 elections, whether local, national or whatever, should have that right taken off them, only to be reinstated after a lengthy and costly application process. That way, compulsory voting can be disregarded.

Non-genealogical... National Service - I'd have that back straight away.  Not the old kind. One where we have to work for the nation. 3 years of cleaning the streets, landscaping parks, running community centres etc.  You can do it anytime between the ages of 16 and 35 and you can do it a year at a time. 

hmmm, I think that would be good for general discipline and responsibility, and excellent for the communities. They'd have to get rid of the bit about swearing allegiance to the queen though. As a gullible young lad of 17, when all my mates wanted to join the RAF, I went along, passed all the exams. Came to sign on the dotted line, they signed their lives away - I just couldn't bring myself to sign that allegiance to someone who didn't have my nations interests at heart. Probably cause a bit of a thread now, but that is my opinion and its served me well so far. 

Mind the House of Lords is better than any TV series. And its free to watch.

[Boongie Pam]

My national Service plan is in context of a devolution from central government so no swearing allegiance required.  We have lost pride in our commuinties as they are designed and run by external forces from a distance.

If I have to speak to one more child pulling branches off trees....

County Councils are a hotbed of corruption.  So My system is a self regulating hierarchy of community councils similar to the parish systems we used to have.  But we all would have to serve time on the bench.  Change of leadership every year.  No party systems no voting.  Each community council sends a representative to the area council who in turn sends a representative to the higher council.  I would make this system soooo complicated that corruption would be impossible as nobody would understand it.   I reckon I'll send a dictate out saying the new representative should be born the 2nd week of March.  Thus randomly choosing them.

I told you I'd thought about this.

Less pie sky theories for the now.  I completely agree about voting.  I don't agree with creating a new application process though - waste of money.  A simple £10 fine for non voting will do.  Most people are just lazy - £10 would make them voting.  Or better still - minimise the cost of collecting the fine.  Let companies sponsor the vote and give away free stuff if you vote.

Mwahahaha one day my pretty, one day...

Pam
 

[pugwash]

I'd vote to get rid of unaffordable charges on sites, so everyone could find about their family history. Perhaps we could get a petition up??