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General UK politics VIII - The Last Tory

Samson said:
To both above, I enjoy listening to Farage, with no particular dog in the fight.
He was adamant that Russia would go Ukraine if Nato continued rhetoric, and was of course proven correct. This is a prediction and not a validation.
He drove Brexit in favor of secure borders, which result was squandered by Johnson.
I am sketching here, but I hope you all take a God's eye view, a notional abstraction that is always helpful to me.
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Complete and utter drivel.
 
Vixen said:
Jimbob said (see prior thread):



Exactly. This is an important point, when the current system means an MP literally represents his or her constituents. So you have MP's from deprived areas representing the interests of that area in the House whilst the rich landowners have theirs. The true problem is population density. The poorer areas tend to be crammed chocablock with people per square mile, which means one constituency with 26,000 people living cheek by jowl has the same representation in parliament as a couple of thousand people spread out over a leafy county sipping at their ice cold beer lazing about in their mansions.
Of course, should there be PR then the opposite problem occurs, so you have the unwashed masses having the most representation, because there are many more of them, whilst great swathes of the country area-wise (for example farmers) have their interests suddenly at the mercy of the populists.

We have PR here in Finland and whilst the north still tends to vote Centre Party (used to be the agricultural party), of course, the urban centres, where more than 25% of the population live tend to the liberal-conservative right, at least recently. So the governments tend to be coalitions because with five or more parties, it is rare to get a full majority. So ATM we have the conservatives sharing power with the far right Basic Finns (think UKIP), even though this sector inhabits a small area by size (big cities and suburbs).


Whilst I think coalition parties work well, proportional representation is not necessarily the answer to the problem of ensuring everybody is represented fairly, or even that your part of the country has a vocal say in the Commons.
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Rubbish.
:rolleyes:
The First Reform Act passed almost two hundred years ago.
 
Darat said:
I doubt that the generation that felt betrayed by the LibDems (when they propped up a Tory government) will forgive them.
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True, however there are still constituencies where the Lib Dems are the primary challenger to the tories. Lesser of two evils and all that, and at least their stance on Brexit and EU is pretty clear.
 
Deleted. Unwise post.
 
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KDLarsen said:
True, however there are still constituencies where the Lib Dems are the primary challenger to the tories. Lesser of two evils and all that, and at least their stance on Brexit and EU is pretty clear.
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As someone who if in the UK would be tempted by the Lib Dems, more and More I think their alliance wiht the Tories was a catastrphic error.
 
BBC Live stream:

Sir Ed Davey has just weighed in on the reports surrounding missing postal votes, saying he's "really concerned", and that it needs to be looked into urgently.​

Well if anyone knows about being "concerned" about the postal system it certainly isn't Davey!

Background to this story:

Royal Mail says it has no backlog of postal votes
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Royal Mail says it has "no backlog" of postal votes amid reports some voters are yet to receive them.

The Telegraph reports that voters in more than 90 constituencies have raised concerns about postal vote delays.

Yesterday, SNP leader John Swinney warned some Scottish voters could be "disenfranchised" if their postal votes cannot be filled out and returned on time, saying no thought had been given to the timing of the election coinciding with the school holidays.

Some Scottish councils opened emergency drop-in centres over the weekend, while others have offered to send out replacement packs – the BBC has compiled a list of Scottish councils' guidance here.

A Royal Mail spokesperson said: “Where concerns have been raised, we have investigated and confirmed ballot packs are being delivered as soon as they arrive in our network."

The Electoral Commission said it will look into the administration of postal voting after the election.

Rishi Sunak's official spokesperson said it was aware of concerns but that it was working with the different organisations involved to "support the resolution of these issues".
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Another success of privatisation?
 
So I have received my postal ballot (too late to return it - my fault). But I was surprised to see on the line of the English Democrats's name, it has a message saying "Deport all illegal immigrants!".

How do they get to put that on the ballot? Did they officially register that as part of their name?
 
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