Felix Online, the educatee magazine of Imperial College London, has published an interview amongst the Respect Party candidate for mayor of London, George Galloway.
The Respect Party is a left-wing United Kingdom of Great Britain in addition to Northern Ireland political political party founded inwards 2004 equally an offspring of the Stop the War Coalition, opposing the Republic of Iraq War. The Party has been compared to “anti-establishment” political parties such equally Syriza inwards Hellenic Republic in addition to Podemos inwards Spain.
Galloway, a controversial pol who appeared inwards the Big Brother reality demo inwards 2004, joined the Respect Party later having been expelled from the Labour Party.
The Felix Online interview covers many topics of involvement to London residents. Galloway is determined to “run Uber out of town” in addition to formulates radical proposals for solving social issues.
“On the housing surface area for example, nosotros intend to buy whatever menage that is unlived inwards for a yr to tackle the prevalence of hundreds of M of properties inwards London that are non truly existence bought equally houses but bought but to commons mainly unusual money beyond the achieve of their ain regulators in addition to media in addition to then on, in addition to this is simply unacceptable,” says Galloway.
In unusual policy, Galloway supports the Palestinian side of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in addition to is “a rigid supporter of Europe in addition to rigid opponent of the mode that Europe is currently run.” On immigration, he thinks that London is a keen urban heart in addition to somebody because it’s a multicultural urban heart in addition to somebody inwards which the minorities are at nowadays the majority.
Galloway’s Mayor’s Chain volition endure particularly interesting to Bitcoin Magazine readers.
“I’m going to seat the entire £17 billion budget online inwards existent fourth dimension inwards blockchain in addition to this volition allow the populace inwards to run across precisely what’s coming inwards in addition to precisely what’s going out, in addition to where it’s going to, in addition to brand representation nigh it,” says the London mayoral candidate.
In the proposed plan, every particular of the budget approved past times sessions of the council would endure logged on a special blockchain called the Mayor’s Chain. The dominion would endure that if an item is non registered on the Mayor’s Chain, it doesn’t be in addition to cannot endure paid. This would ensure that everything is fully transparent from the start.
“So for event if the mayoralty transferred today 50,000 pounds for such in addition to such a service, members of the populace instantaneously tin say, ‘I know that that same service could endure provided much to a greater extent than cheaply,’ in addition to we’ve identified that nosotros tin brand rattling substantial savings inwards the budget, mayhap 900 1000000 pounds saving, just past times populace participation,” says Galloway. “So we’d endure the alone authorities inwards the entire basis whose entire budget was transparently online in addition to influenceable, in addition to I recall it mightiness just laid upward a trend.”
Galloway may endure a controversial politician, in addition to he mightiness non receive got much adventure of becoming the adjacent mayor of London, but his Mayor’s Chain proposal seems a existent killer app that could – in addition to should – endure adopted past times cities in addition to nations worldwide. The citizens could await upward all bids, contracts in addition to expenses on a populace tamper-proof blockchain, vote on proposals for the allotment of populace funds (perhaps via little token payments from registered addresses), in addition to location corruption in addition to inefficiencies immediately.
It would endure a real, disruptive, world-changing killer app.
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