Reply to P Giddy http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1991806,00.html

The most effective way to ensure that "policy and decision-making 
employs direct input from citizens", as identified in PoWEr’s own survey 
(57 varieties, drafted by Graham Smith) is to introduce and apply 
elements of direct, citizens’ democracy like that proposed in 
Recommendation 24 of Power to the People. These methods and procedures, 
such as citizens‘ initiative and referendum, enable the people of a 
polity to decide matters of constitution and to steer important policy 
issues.

More about citizens' direct democracy and proposals to introduce it here 
may be found at http://www.iniref.org/

Wallace-Macpherson

I&R~GB Citizens' Initiative and Referendum
a campaign for direct democracy in Britain