And Cameron thinks that the EU/NWO will allow him to do this or anything else...i don't think so. Pull out of the EU and we might get our country back but he is part of the problem i'm afraid. He takes his orders from them as do the other parties. only they to us about it.

Samantha Jones, Bucks, England

Britain needs direct democracy even more than proportional representation. However, it will not be delivered by the Conservative Party as they are committed to 19th century representative democracy aka elective dictatorship. Would the Tories REALLY give referenda on the following issues:

Immigration
The EU
Capital punishment
Multiculturalism

I seriously doubt it, and suspect Cameron is just resorting to a glib tactic to boost support for his faltering party.

Riaz, England,

With the proposal as stated here, Cameron risks (or intends) installing a system which will turn out to be a sham of democracy and will serve to further increase alienation of the people from their politicians. If parliament may fiddle about with a citizens' proposal, then we may expect -- fiddling!

Research and many comments of citizens in Britain have shown that a very large majority of us want a democracy which enables us, in addition to electing and throwing out politicians, to co-decide on some public issues. The "agenda setting" rights (petitions) which the Tories now seem to suggest do not go far enough. The critical point is, if a citizens' proposal ("initiative" in the USA, Switzerland and elsewhere) gains huge support (say, three million endorsements) then, if government and parliament reject the proposal, it *must* be put to the whole electorate in a plebiscite (which may be called a binding referendum).

Michael Macpherson

Michael Macpherson, Guildford, Surrey