Edinburgh Council Elections

This Scotsman has to vote tomorrow, but they won’t tell me who to vote for. Council elections here use the Single Transferable Vote method. This is the only sensible electoral system. It’s a Proportional Representation system, unlike the laughably awful First Past The Post (FPTP) used in Westminster – rant here – and lets us …

Starmer Reaps His Silence

Hartlepool voted for a Conservative MP instead of Labour for the first time since 1959. This is dreadful for Labour. That they lost a by-election to an eleven-year government is appalling. To lose by the landslide they did rubs salt in the wound. The radio has been replete with Labour strategists and pundits expounding on …

Nice to hear you Keir

After a very very very long period of abject silence and letting the UK’s most incompetent ever government get away with it Sir Keir piped up today. Hello! What he said wasn’t that impressive (from the news snippets I gathered), but better than nothing. Actually he does need to be sounding the statesman and proposing …