The BBC has published a page on the electoral reforms that I was discussing yesterday. They explain the systems quite well but please please don’t take any notice of the figures they give for the number of seats in the election under the different systems. This is only guesswork as I tried to explain because [...]
To follow on from my last post. I am left wondering…
In the AV+ system, why does the proportional part of the system only have one fifth of the weight of the AV part which for the most part is just first-past-the-post?
What if instead the House was made up from 50% AV and 50% proportional voting? [...]
In the near future the British electoral system may be overhauled. The Liberal Democrats want it as part of the price of their forming a coalition government as I have mentioned before. But what system will be adopted? There seems to be three possibilities.
Single Transferable Vote
- Liberal Democrat preferred system
Alternative Vote
- This was previously mentioned [...]
Today the LibDems revealed they are talking to Labour about a coalition. Between them they do not have enough seats to form a majority but they would have more than the Conservatives and would have every right to form a minority government. They could pretty much count on getting enough more votes from the minority [...]
Well I am very disappointed at the lack of people voting for the Liberal Democrats this morning. Initially I wanted to say that people bottled it and decided to vote Conservative but if we look at the shift in votes for each party as a percentage of the total that doesn’t appear to be the [...]
I’m a bit late to the party on this but I thought the vitriol and fury being vented about the new scanners at UK airports was a bit on an over-reaction – or at least the reaction was for all the wrong reasons.
The first story I read that made me think to write about them [...]
Are you for or against the Lisbon Treaty’s content? Do you approve of the way in which the Treaty has been put into place?
Two quite different questions if you think about it. Most people I think would answer No to both when in fact they mean No to the latter but don’t actually know anything [...]
The Archbishop of Canterbury has accused Members of Parliament of treating religious faith as an “eccentricity” practised by “oddities”.
He then goes on to refer to the Catholic church as an “eccentric option”.
Pot…Kettle? Kettle…Pot? That’s some awesome hypocrisy!
Anyway he claims that all three party leaders have a moral sense of some “spiritual flavour” which is wrong [...]
I haven’t had time to update the page for a while for which I apologise. The continuation of my Quantum Physics theme will happen very soon I promise. Right now all my time is taken up with work and the legal entanglements of buying a house. Add on top of that the fact that I’ve [...]