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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2014 22:12:36 GMT
The idea of MPs having different numbers of votes when they vote in the House of Commons has been used occasionally as the basis for some proposals for proportional representation ... ...and electors with an 'A' level get one votes, with a degree get two votes, with a doctorate get three votes. (five minutes googling hasn't reminded me who proposed this) People stupid enough to do a doctorate should get none.
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Post by J.G.Harston on Oct 27, 2014 22:22:35 GMT
The idea of MPs having different numbers of votes when they vote in the House of Commons has been used occasionally as the basis for some proposals for proportional representation ... ...and electors with an 'A' level get one votes, with a degree get two votes, with a doctorate get three votes. (five minutes googling hasn't reminded me who proposed this) John Stuart Mill. For some reason I was thinking Thomas Paine.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2014 16:23:10 GMT
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Mar 10, 2015 9:12:29 GMT
The PCR Committee's report on 'What next on the redrawing of Parliamentary boundaries?' was agreed at the committee meeting yesterday and will be published in the next few days.
EDIT: 00:01 on Sunday, timed to make the Sunday papers?
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Mar 15, 2015 0:10:06 GMT
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Post by Andrew_S on Mar 15, 2015 0:37:56 GMT
I thought Pete had made a few proposals.
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Post by Adrian on Mar 16, 2015 16:55:26 GMT
I got one mention in the footnotes
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2015 18:53:36 GMT
The Report is quite fair and even handed, all told. I can imagine that some of its more sensible conclusions will survive being put through the civil service sausage machine.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Mar 17, 2015 9:13:07 GMT
I thought Pete had made a few proposals. I didn't make any submission to this review - only to the electoral review itself, I thought Psephos's identity was disputed
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Post by The Bishop on Mar 17, 2015 11:02:31 GMT
Yes, but I don't think stepney's was/is.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2015 22:07:57 GMT
I thought Pete had made a few proposals. I didn't make any submission to this review - only to the electoral review itself, I thought Psephos's identity was disputedSo much so that he was No. 3 in the last Newcomer of the Year competition.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 13, 2015 10:41:16 GMT
Labour manifesto, page 63: "Drawing on the work of the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee, we will take steps to ensure that the move to individual electoral registration does not leave millions unregistered, nor lead to constituencies that fail to take into account the people who live in them."
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2015 6:46:27 GMT
Labour manifesto, page 63: "Drawing on the work of the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee, we will take steps to ensure that the move to individual electoral registration does not leave millions unregistered, nor lead to constituencies that fail to take into account the people who live in them." *sigh*
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 14, 2015 11:12:30 GMT
Tories pledge to hold to the 2011 Act. Meanwhile they are up for a bit of voter suppression, and packing the electoral register with wealthy expats:
"Building on our introduction of individual voter registration, we will continue to make our arrangements fair and effective by ensuring the Electoral Commission puts greater priority on tackling fraud and considers insisting on proof of ID to vote. We will complete the electoral register, by working to include more of the five million Britons who live abroad. We will introduce votes for life, scrapping the rule that bars British citizens who have lived abroad for more than 15 years from voting."
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Apr 14, 2015 11:24:48 GMT
Don't live here, don't get to vote, should be simple as that. Can't be arsed to Google "how to register to vote", don't get to vote, should be simple as that.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2015 21:41:49 GMT
Tories pledge to hold to the 2011 Act. Meanwhile they are up for a bit of voter suppression, and packing the electoral register with wealthy expats: "Building on our introduction of individual voter registration, we will continue to make our arrangements fair and effective by ensuring the Electoral Commission puts greater priority on tackling fraud and considers insisting on proof of ID to vote. We will complete the electoral register, by working to include more of the five million Britons who live abroad. We will introduce votes for life, scrapping the rule that bars British citizens who have lived abroad for more than 15 years from voting." *sigh*
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 15, 2015 9:35:07 GMT
Here's what the Lib Dem manifesto says about boundaries:
"We will ... Cancel the boundary review due to report in 2018. While new constituencies would need to be established for a new voting system, we believe constituency boundary reviews should respect natural geographical communities, with greater flexibility for the Boundary Commission to deviate from exact equality to take account of community ties and continuity of representation."
That's because they pledge to bring in STV for Parliamentary elections.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2015 9:35:51 GMT
*sigh of relief*
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2015 9:36:27 GMT
Though these three divergent views suggest the compromise post-election will be messy as all Hell
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Post by johnloony on Apr 16, 2015 2:38:21 GMT
Here's what the Lib Dem manifesto says about boundaries: "We will ... Cancel the boundary review due to report in 2018. While new constituencies would need to be established for a new voting system, we believe constituency boundary reviews should respect natural geographical communities, with greater flexibility for the Boundary Commission to deviate from exact equality to take account of community ties and continuity of representation." That's because they pledge to bring in STV for Parliamentary elections. My interpretation of that paragraph is that the second bit (from "we believe..." onwards) refers to what they think should happen under FPTP, for as long as FPTP prevails, and that the "While..." bit refers to the separate issue of wanting a new voting system (STV or otherwise). If STV, or AMS, or whatever other system were to be introduced, the whole question of how boundary reviews are done - and what criteria are used in such reviews - would have to be completely re-written ab initio anyway.
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