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Didn't they do the same thing in 2016 and spend most of the time going on about how he was going to come after your GOLD rather than actually presenting any sort of positive vision? I lived in Croydon at the time (I didn't see any of the aforementioned leaflets myself, presumably it wasn't the...

I'm not sure the London electorate is any more random or unpredictable than anywhere else. In any case, the mayoral elections going back to 2008 have all been won by the candidate who was ahead in the polls.

Urgh.

Christ, who are these people still planning to vote for Houchen? Actually, scrap that, I suspect I'm related to a bunch of them. :facepalm:

To be fair, from the perspective of the older workers in question, axing it could be considered a humanitarian intervention.

I can pretend to think we should elect it using Party List PR if that would be more fun?

I think the Lords should be appointed, but by a committee of people/MPs from across the spectrum. Instead of by whoever happens to be in power/resigning at the time. If everybody (or I don't know, maybe 75%) of people on said committee don't agree to somebody being appointed, they don't get in...

After the revolution and installation of a Marxist government, all critiques of capitalism will be equal.

Crucially though, Lee Anderson doesn't represent a constituency in London. I'm sure a majority of people in his own constituents don't agree with his comments either, but there's no reason for him to care about Londoners' views.

Didn't he make a point of having representatives from different faiths there? I think I had it on in the background while I was picking my nose or something, so the images made more impression on me than anything they were actually droning on about.

When you say "old woman", was she calling from the early 2000s on her 3310?

Although with the best will in the world, I still struggle to imagine too many people coming on here and insisting that Lee Anderson isn't just not racist, but is the least racist Briton ever to have ever lived and the living embodiment of all human virtue.

f***ing hell. I've read more sense in tea leaves. After I've drunk the tea and pissed it out again.

I think it's more insidious than "person reads newspaper editorial, decides to vote conservative" It's about the framing of the national discourse. The way an article in one paper might say somebody "stated" something but another might use the word "claimed". Having said that, I've always...

I was envisaging some sort of armed coup. It's amazing how persuasive the threat of summary execution can be. Seriously though, just change it through Parliament like everything else. Hypothetically, at some point a party in government, probably Labour since they are as a party as a whole at...

I know you touch on it a couple of times in this post, but how do you find STV works in the senate elections in Australia? In principle it seems to me to address most of my objections to both FPTP and a straight PR system (i.e. somewhat proportional, more votes influence the outcome, votes...

To be fair, alternating centre left/right coalitions probably is a more productive way of governing a country than alternating between an outright right wing and an outright left wing government. In reality, the whole reason why people always end up complaining that there's no real alternative...

I mean, there have been far more overtly extreme people than Farage elected to the House of Commons. I don't like him, and would never vote for him, but the idea that FPTP is a catch all barrier against extremism falls apart the moment you apply any thought to it. He could get elected if he...

And then he might, what, take us out of Europe? Oh the horror. :lolol: I appreciate that gag will have been used before on this thread.

As you say, the right have been on a surge generally across many countries. It is entirely possible that in Italy or Holland the governments would look even more right wing under alternative systems where the winner of an election gets an exaggerated portion of the seats. A similar movement...