For whatever reason, people keep ascribing views to me which I do not hold. Never has this been clearer than during this dreadful campaign leading up to today’s referendum on The Alternative Vote. I don’t mind AV. It’s not a bad electoral system, it would probably work fine in parliamentary elections. It might even give [...]
Someone asked via a very nice email which books I could see round me right at that moment. Never one to disappoint my reader, I’ve sat down and looked around me. The books I can see from here, constituting about a tenth of the collection in my soon to be much tidier room: The Angry [...]
Apologies for the title, but really, seriously, what is it we have now? The Liberal Democrats offered Proportional Representation. They slumped in the election losing seats, and retained their position as the third party in UK politics. The Labour Party offered a referendum on Alternative Vote PR. They lost 91 seats. The Conservatives said no [...]
The Conservatives (and Saatchis) have produced posters highlighting some of the shortcomings of Gordon Brown in an attempt to remind people what a useless dreadful appalling arsehole he is. But I don’t think they’ve gone far enough. And now I think I’ve gone too far. [imagebrowser id=11]
I’ve decided to kick off my run-up to the General Election by covering the public comments on the subject of rape of one Grant French, the UK Independence Party Candidate for Penistone and Stockbridge in South Yorkshire. I have edited the screenshots only to obscure the photos of people not in public life. I haven’t [...]
The decision to elect Margaret Ritchie MLA leader of the Social, Democratic and Labour Party is the decision which will destroy the party. To be fair, the choice was between a political operator at turns smooth and utterly unsophisticated whom many in the party couldn’t bring themselves to have lunch with, let alone vote for [...]
Vote No. They threatened you They treated you like a fool They pretended it was a new document They didn’t listen to you the first time Your sovereignty, and the sovereignty of other nations is eroded by the treaty Whilst I’ve tried to think of all the things that make me proud to be a [...]
Living as I currently do in Dublin, I see the Lisbon Treaty referendum happening all around me. I am a British citizen, so I have no vote. Quite right, citizens of other nations shouldn’t have a say on the constitution of Ireland. But, listening to the Marian Finucane show today, I know now that I [...]
So in my previous post, I explained that some organisations were putting up really godawful posters for the Lisbon Treaty. And I think most people agree that very many of them are pretty substantially awe-inspiring. I was awfully inspired on a few of them to pull them down and correct their grammar, possibly add a [...]
