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 …
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Electoral Systems – How Stupid Do They Have to Be?
Fact: The First Past the Post system used in most parts of most elections in the UK is completely rubbish. It is unrepresentative and unfair. Brits seem functionally unable to understand this. I don’t know why. The argument is always about its simplicity: “whoever gets the most votes wins, so it must be right”. No …
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BreYesxit 2 – Where Can My Vote Do The Least Damage?
If I said to you…There was a large group that was successful because of its scale and diversity, but a small part wanted to leave it because of imagined discrimination…might I be talking about Little England Tories and the EU, or the SNP and the UK? Can’t tell them apart really. The Part has done …
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Referendum – Half of People Make a Majority
An Ipsos Mori poll found 51% of people in the UK think Scots should have a referendum on whether to leave the UK. It’s understandable: we never stop bleating about it, we get tons of cash from the Saxon foe down south and moan about it, we proclaim “Once in a generation” referenda every nine …
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Unlockdowning II
Saint Nic is due to present Scottish lockdown unwinding plans this afternoon. What do you bet they’ll be as different as possible to the filthy Saxons’? [Later] Yup.
National Friends and Foes
Alex the Groper is causing trouble for Saint Nicola. If he succeeds his allegations would cost her job. Without her halo the Scottish National Party would be a less invincible body. People might notice they’d been making a mess of running a country; the one-party rule would be less attractive; getting a secession referendum (and …