Amanda Scott
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 25 Feb
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So tell us what a People's Assembly is, for those who are new to the podcast and don't know the difference between a Citizens' Assembly and a People's Assembly.
And then can you also tell us what was on your flyer?
Because getting 50 people to come to the local Quaker Meeting House
of an evening is actually quite an achievement these days.
Most people would rather stay home and scroll social media.
How did you find facilitators who knew what a people's assembly was and how to facilitate?
Okay, so let's talk about... I would like to talk about the process as much as about...
what it is that you're doing.
So we've got a People's Assembly, which pretty much by definition is self-organising and self-selected, as opposed to a Citizens' Assembly, which, as you said, is selected on the same basis as juries, technically.
It should be a broad spread where you have representatives of all of the demographics, which if you only have 99 people is really hard to do.
And as you said, again, requires that you have access to the voter rolls in ways that are delineated by all of the factors that you might want to bring into it.
So it's a hard thing to do.
and very expensive.
People's assemblies, you have who turns up.
So people could say that it's a self-selected group and it's not representative of the wider community, but you've leafleted all the houses and you get the people who care.
And that seems to me a good thing.
Then you have facilitation with people who have had some training,
to make sure I'm checking this is true, that the loudest voices are not the only ones that are heard, because you can end up with overt or covert bullying in small groups.
So if you get shy people who just are not very good at speaking up and you get people who are very opinionated and have spent a lot of their lives telling other people what they think, and you can end up with weighted bullying.
opinions if you're not careful so the facilitators are there to make sure that there's equity within the groups and then you have somebody good who's taking down all the opinions and then you have to read them all and that always strikes me as
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