Via Luke Akehurst, I’ve found a rather good idea called LabourSpace. You can propose a campaign and then people can vote up or down and the one with most support at the end is looked at more seriously. In its own words:

Labourspace lets you quickly and easily set up a campaign and share your ideas with the Labourspace community. If you start a campaign which gains the most popular support your ideas will be bought to the attention of senior Labour politicians – your campaign could give you the opportunity to change the world!

You’ll win if you have the idea with the highest net support (supporters – detractors)

All you need is to get the most support for your idea – it’s all about people power really!

Once you’ve registered with the site we’ll give you your very own profile page where you can upload photos, tell the world a little bit about yourself and show other people the campaigns you support (or oppose.)

And then you can get on with the fun – sharing your genius ideas with the world.

The idea that caught my eye most at the Progressive London conference was from Ken himself. Basically, it’s that

every person should pay tax on money in the country where they earn it and, similarly, corporations should pay taxes on profit in the country where they make them. This would have to be done through global and international agreement, effectively closing off tax havens.

I’m thinking of running it up the flagpole and seeing if anyone salutes. Do people think it’s a good idea?

xD.

Posted on Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 at 11:51 pm
Categories: Campaigns, Progressive London.
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