About us
Blue: We are developing a new blueprint to advance the interests of the blue collar workers. Finally, blue is the colour of the last hat in our proposed decision-making process.
Revolution: Our aim as a political platform is to bring an end to the Party Political system.
Our Strapline and Core Aim
The Platform for Ending Party Politics
Why we want this peaceful and democratic Revolution.
Having a party political system means we have elected politicians who are conflicted between what is right for their party and that which is right for their constituents.
It is the constituents who vote for their representative by name, not by party. To us at a Blue Revolution, it is the voters who deserve full representative without the party confusing the situation.
There are examples of fully independent councils and they have great outcomes because the members vote on conscious and what they believe is best for their area with no confusion from the Political Party System.
Successive Prime Ministers and Opposition Leaders have discussed bringing an end to the confrontational style of politics, ‘Punch and Judy’ as David Cameron called it, at Prime Ministers Question Time.
How we plan to do this.
Edward Debono in his book ‘6 Thinking Hats’ implies that the current political system wastes a lot of energy arguing and debating. In effect, politicians are using their minds to win the argument rather than finding the best solution for the country. The six thinking hats method helps fix this through a predetermined process. A process where everybody involved in the decision-making focuses on finding the best solution through cooperation. It encourages all minds to focus on solutions rather than party political point scoring.
SIX HATS, 6 THINKING STYLES
Each of the Six Thinking Hats represents a different style of thinking. Here’s a quick outline.
1. White Hat
This is for putting up facts and figures neutrally and objectively. Look at the available information and also identify information gaps, so we can choose to fill them or just take account of them. This is where you provide background information, and analyse and extrapolate historical trends.
2. Red Hat
The red hat represents the emotional view. It recognizes and gives visibility to feelings, intuition and gut reaction as an important part of thinking. The red hat allows a thinker to switch in and out of his feeling mode, and also to invite others to share their feelings, in a non-judgemental way. By making emotions visible, we can observe their influence in the thinking process.
3. Black Hat
The black hat represents caution and what could go wrong. It points out what doesn’t fit, what may not work, what is wrong, and hence protects us from fatal flaws and wasted resources. The black hat recognizes the value of caution and risk assessment; it makes our plans more robust.
4. Yellow Hat
The yellow hat focuses on value, benefits and optimism. It is positive and constructive. It helps us to develop “value sensitivity” and invest time to seek out value.
5. Green Hat
The green hat is about creativity, new ideas and change. This is when we present alternative and new ideas, possibilities, and modify or improve suggested ideas. It is about recognizing the value of creative effort and allocating time for it.
6. Blue Hat
The blue hat is for process control, and for managing and organizing thinking. It has a strategic role in laying out the overall plan, and also for moment-to-moment instructions. It helps to organize the other hats, assess priorities, list constraints etc. Unlike the other hats, the blue hat is a permanent role. It is worn by the facilitator or chairperson of the meeting, though the leader may also assign the blue-hat role to others, or invite participants to wear the blue hat.
Source: – https://readingraphics.com/book-summary-six-thinking-hats/
With the ‘Six Thinking Hats’ style of working, we would no longer need party politics because everybody will be doing what is best for the country and their constituents and not conflicted by the party.
Should a constituent not agree the elected representative’s direction after the ‘Six Thinking Hats’ process, the thinking behind the decision can be shared with the individual to understand the decision and put forward an alternative idea if needed.
This will enable a new level of transparency that is not clouded by underlying party political allegiances and donor influences.
If like us you would like to see a new cleaner, more honest decision-making process within our democratic system please join our political platform and help this new future become a reality.
