Gibson attacks Houchen

We absolutely do not want to introduce weighted voting based on understanding, that's an awful idea.

The vast majority of voters will have, at best, a surface level understanding of what they're voting for in every democracy in the world.

Introducing tests on that knowledge would inevitably just lead to corruption, and you'd also end up with calls for people who pay more tax to have more of a say if you're getting rid of one person, one vote.
I totally understand your points, and it's not practical to do it anyway, it was a bit tongue in cheek.

I'm more getting at stopping the people who are clueless voting for self harm, but I appreciate you will have some clever rich folk gaining out of that system. My point it the clever, bent and rich folk are already gaining anyway, but I think they would be outnumbered by those who are clued up enough, not bent and not rich, or at least it would be a closer fight.

As the above is not practical, the only other way to change things is to change the way the clueless are influenced, but this is changing naturally due to influence of the internet, and it plays a much bigger part in peoples lives, the later the year they were born.

Like I mentioned later in the post though, times are a changing, the press and tory influenced media are losing weight of influence, and also their target market is shrinking/ dyeing by the day. This is also when the market against them is also being born every day or becoming interested in the news, which is less influenced by Tory money etc. I thought the tipping point would have been later to be honest, but the Tories have done such a **** job that they've probably locked Labour in for 10 years, which will get us to the tipping point I think. After then, there's no way back for them, not on the path they're currently on. They'll either fail, or have to massively soften up.
 
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