Have been saying for yonks that if people and policy or politicians are to connect online, the politicians and policy makers have to go out to where the people are, not build fortresses that they expect people to come and visit (an assumption that led to one of the ways the National e-Democracy Project got it wrong a few years ago).
In offline politics and policy making, government goes out to meet people in their own environments, so why should the web be any different? So, love the exchange between Iain Dale and John Prescott over the last few days. It started off with Iain Dale wondering if John Prescott really did write his own entries on his Facebook profile, and asking to be proven wrong. In response, John Prescott came back with this.
Suppose you might not expect anything else from someone who came into politics through a more hands on and community based route, but props to John Prescott, when it comes to e-democracy, he definitely gets it.
mr.prescott condemned protester against p.mandellson,particularly after his own experience of egg throwing.the real problem is no respect for police or law.
when armed response police,(pc evans and female partner from hessle) create fictious road traffic violations-its the thin edge of the wedge. my own personal experience. democracy wont survive unless these abuses of power are corrected.