[OccupyComms] D2015 Update Corby By-Election in November

[marknbarrett at googlemail.com]

Below is pasted from D2015 FB group discussion. Organisers are looking for advice, support and constructive criticism about policy assembly process referred to.

You can connect with them via their web-site, email address, FB group or upcoming public meetings. 

'This (picture not included) is Adam Lotun. He is registered disabled, an unemployed father of two, and is standing in the upcoming by-election in Corby and East Northamptonshire. He shares so many of the values of Democracy 2015 – a strong concern for the representation of ordinary people in parliament, a passion for local consultative processes and direct democracy, and a profound distaste for the incompetence and deceit so prevalent among our representatives – that we have decided to endorse him
and have him run under our colours.

In many ways, Adam is different from the D2015 candidates that are to run in the General Election. He has not been chosen via a primary election process, and he will not be standing on a Democracy 2015 manifesto. Candidates in 2015 will be. All the same, when Adam suggested we work together we felt that it offered an unmissable opportunity to present an alternative to local voters: we feel that it is now that we need to get the message out, that we have to act boldly to remain relevant.

Ultimately we believe that Adam’s campaign will help to strengthen Democracy 2015. Adam’s manifesto will be shaped by a series of local policy assemblies held in Corby and the surrounding areas, jointly organised by Democracy 2015, which will act as dry-runs for the national policy discussions that are to follow.

This is the first step towards a change to how British politics is run: support Adam Lotun for people power in Corby!'

Mark 

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