Join the new world

So the Speaker wants us to write articles or something. How does this work then Appleby?



Congress reform? Oh goody what an exciting topic for the public to read about, I'm sure their eyeballs will be glued to the screen to read articles about that old chestnut.

Well, then, here's my opinion on congress reform and stuff.

1. The speaker elections are a bloody mess


A top quality speaker

Right so what congress normally does is the last term's speaker asks some PPs for people to stick up for election, some may ask to run but normally it's just who the PPs have thrown into the mix. What this can lead to is people being unaware that they're in the election and then "oh god I'm speaker now wat". What happened this time around was hollenboer nominated Dapper, who didn't know about it and then proceeded to wreck the election "in protest", the first of two daft protests so far this term. So in the end we had to do a second one, and people stepped up themselves and disregarded PPs, and it went quite smoothly and SHA came out the winner.

See now the second election was jolly good, so why not be logical:

CUT OUT THE PPs

This prevents uncooperative arsewarts like hollenboer annoying their congressmen and nominating an unaware candidate, and also it may end up with us getting more options during the election if a bunch of people want the job. Should just take a fairly simple tweak of the speaker act and we're done with bollocks forever.

Should nobody come forward, I'd suggest then maybe contact PPs. But even then their may be other options, hell, the CP could step in and open the darned PMs maybe. That's not too strenuous, is it?


2. Speakers should write more articles and stuff

We can't make some stupid legislation about this one, but for people to actually want the speaker job so point one can work the speakers could at least look as though they're powerful. Writing waffle seems to make you look like a proper powerful, knowledgeable man, at least that's how TUP CP candidates tend to do things. And they win an awful lot.
Also, by writing articles now and then, just an odd report about what congress is doing, the public is reassured that congress is actually doing something (even when we're not). Speakers should usually do a bit more than open some PMs.

3. How we should communicate

It's the big one.


A different Big One in Blackpool

Every term congress starts their unproductive bawfest by arguing about which method of communication is better. A few people say the forum is better, but in the end it's always the PM that gets used the most. Fact.

See now, why not promote the use of ALL THE COMMS.



"But that would be chaos you crazy fool!" says you. (just pretend, mkay?) Well, what I envisage in my head is this system working quite well, if one uses the following system:

1. Speaker opens PMs
2. Main bulk of congress bickers in the PM
3. Small groups use their favoured communication method to communicate with each other
4. Small group comes up with a good idea
5. Said Small group takes the idea to the main PM
6. Boring congressmen shoot the idea down and let it crash and burn/congress says ok but nothing's ever done about
7. Speaker tells the other PM group about said idea (if it only ended up in one)
8. Other PM group does step 6

Rinse and repeat

See now this might not work as well as I hope, but it allows smaller groups to discuss some ideas and stuff and not just have people in congress going "HURR DURR FORUM > EVERYTHING FORUM WILL FIX EVERYTHING FORUM WILL SOLVE WORLD HUNGER AND BRING UNITY TO SKYRIM FORUM FORUM FORUM" and then getting annoyed when somebody goes "I'd rather we'd IRC tho, I like that fast conversation shizznit" It would also let some people within said smaller groups bond and stuff, allowing people to actually make some friends within the group, and then you never know, we might get congressmen arranging romantic dinners or something.

It's an idea anyway, if we had a bunch of good congressmen this proposed system would work well. Of course, though, every congress has a bunch of complete arsebags so that may not work at all.