Insights From Social Media: Seems a bit undemocratic to me?

Politicians of most stripes go on and on about “CO GOVERNANCE”

Now I do understand how MPs duly elected, although my concept of democracy does not actually embrace List MPs selected by a Party then becoming MPs through the proportional votes cast for that Party as a valid expression of Democracy, largely due to the simple fact I as a citizen have no part in establishing that “List” for any of the half dozen or so Parties.
That accepted we are said to have a functioning democracy even though there is no way a simple majority can eliminate an individual MP and we end up with shirt lifters , paedophiles, shop lifters, alcoholics, fraudsters and the mentally deranged, sitting in a chamber of horrors legislating for all.

Now I am an avowed Anglophile and utterings by Churchill whether actually his or not, do loom large in my understanding of matters Political? His view on Democracy embrace several utterances such as;

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Then another;

“the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper—no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of that point.

or;

“it is also essential to this foundation that this man or woman should do this without fear, and without any form of intimidation or victimization. He marks his ballot paper in strict secrecy, and then elected representatives and together decide what government, or even in times of stress, what form of government they wish to have in their country”.

Possibly my favourite;

“The best argument against Democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”

So any form of selecting those who will govern us is all indeed a fraught subject but the there is this notion that appears to be gaining an ever widening acceptability amongst the ruling elite and god knows that is another can of decaying worms, of “Co Governance”?

Most voters know and understand what any Politician promises in seeking election it will be a rare occurrence indeed that they will ever deliver on such promises but that seems an acceptable facet of our electoral system but Co Governance, now how many actually understand exactly what that entails.

A deepening suspicion grows that the “Co” will entirely come from an unelected cohort that in New Zealand terms will be a racially selected, largely self appointed group of people that in any one person one vote scenario will fail miserably to garner anything near to a majority of the voters at large.

They expect that anonanimal salient point to be considered Democratic in any shape or form, give me strength?

Source: https://nominister.wordpress.com/2026/02/07/seems-a-bit-undemocratic-to-me/