About Apolitical Democracy
‘Apolitical’ describes a convention of impartiality amongst people active in politics, like the Speaker of the Commons, the Cross-Benchers in the Lords or most parish councillors, who are not subject to the party ‘whip’ or told what to think by a political party. Apolitical offers a different way. We are a local group of independents with differing points of view but who share a belief in collaboration not...
Post General Election 2010
In many respects we have moved closer to our ideal of an apolitical democracy. The country has chosen not to wholly endorse any of the three tired old tribes and yet the parties continue to scrabble amongst the rubble in an entirely undemocratic process of ‘king making’.
David Yates
David Yates is standing for the Apolitical Democrats in the Newbury General Election 2010. He joined the army as an apprentice at age 16. He has lived locally since he first came to Newbury with the army in 1981. Although trained in the army as a land surveyor, he currently works as a builder. Aged 48, David is married with 4 children, 2 of whom still go to school locally. David is an active parent governor at their school. He is keen...
Apolitical Democrats
The Apolitical Democrats are, by definition apolitical, ‘politically neutral, unbiased, non-aligned’, and democrats ‘believers in the democratic right of people to choose who represents them in government’. Our aim is to provide a counter balance to discredited, big-party tribal politics. ‘Apolitical’ describes a convention of impartiality amongst people active in politics, like the Speaker of the Commons, the...
