Privacy Policy
Effective Date: 21st December 2024
This Privacy Policy explains how Direct Democracy Movement ("we," "our," or "us") collects, uses, and protects the personal information of visitors and users of our website, [ddrightnow.com] ("Site").
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6. Changes to This Policy
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Direct Democracy features in the Politics in Pubs website. "On Tuesday 23rd June 2026 (the tenth anniversary of the EU Referendum), Politics in Pubs met to discuss the Direct Democracy Movement. We were delighted to welcome guest speaker Neil Petrie, author and former intelligence officer, to introduce this topic and lead the discussion." Click the logo below to read the report and the in-depth question and answer session.
People in the UK are now ready to reject the government’s hard power control tactics as a means of governing the country. The UK’s Government hasn’t been considering the views of its people, which they are meant to represent, for a very long time, most recently proven throughout the Covid-19 crisis.
Experience has shown that democracy is enhanced when the electorate is directly involved in making policy decisions, inputting, learning and self-correcting as they go. Referendums and Initiatives allow voters to address matters that the parties might prefer not to, often out of self-interest or to avoid “controversy”.
Neil Petrie has written a "seminal work attacking the self-interested elites driving globalisation, controlling representative democracies, and manipulating peoples around the world". Below we offer his book as an audiobook.
A growing number of nations and localities recognise the benefits that voters bring to their policy-making process and have adopted direct democracy. In general, they retain the existing representative system to “manage” day-to-day matters, but also use three tried, tested and simple voting tools to top-up the half-full democracy tank. These are: