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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Mar 11, 2019 13:58:02 GMT
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on May 7, 2019 12:33:18 GMT
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on May 9, 2019 12:37:12 GMT
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Post by carlton43 on May 9, 2019 13:07:04 GMT
Broadly I totally oppose this in principle and in intent. It is anti-democratic in nature, very PC and very Snoflake in import. It should be soundly rebutted and rejected. |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Sept 16, 2019 15:51:31 GMT
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Nov 1, 2019 11:13:42 GMT
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Mar 17, 2020 0:11:40 GMT
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jun 7, 2020 11:51:31 GMT
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Post by 🏴☠️ Neath West 🏴☠️ on Jun 7, 2020 14:48:08 GMT
It's the Law Commission. The recommendations are bound to be both unhelpful and self-serving. I would say that they deserve to be ignored, but their publications are usually excellent studies in what one wants to avoid doing. |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jul 8, 2020 10:07:33 GMT
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Post by greenhert on Jul 8, 2020 11:10:20 GMT
Not a single mention of more fundamental reforms in that report, like introducing proportional representation to local and parliamentary elections in England and Wales, at least via the form of Additional Member System, nor changing the £500 deposit requirement to a requirement for more signatures (e.g. 100 instead of 10).
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jul 8, 2020 11:51:10 GMT
It didn't talk about Picasso's 'blue period' either, and for the same reason: that was outside the committee's terms of reference.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Mar 16, 2021 13:46:43 GMT
Announcement from Priti Patel: "In line with the Government’s manifesto position in favour of First Past the Post, which provides for strong and clear local accountability, and reflects that transferable voting systems were rejected by the British people in the 2011 nationwide referendum, the Home Office will work with the Cabinet Office and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to change the voting system for all Combined Authority Mayors, the Mayor of London and PCCs to First Past the Post. This change will require primary legislation, which we will bring forward when Parliamentary time allows." questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2021-03-16/hcws849/ |
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Post by Chris from Brum on Mar 16, 2021 13:52:06 GMT
Announcement from Priti Patel: "In line with the Government’s manifesto position in favour of First Past the Post, which provides for strong and clear local accountability, and reflects that transferable voting systems were rejected by the British people in the 2011 nationwide referendum, the Home Office will work with the Cabinet Office and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to change the voting system for all Combined Authority Mayors, the Mayor of London and PCCs to First Past the Post. This change will require primary legislation, which we will bring forward when Parliamentary time allows." questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2021-03-16/hcws849/Riiiight, a referendum 10 years ago when the main issue wasn't actually the electoral system at all, but how hard voters wanted to kick Nick Clegg? Sure, sound basis for action now.
Not that SV as a system does anything other than stink to high heaven, but reform in this direction seems needless and arbitrary.
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Post by carlton43 on Mar 16, 2021 14:23:21 GMT
Announcement from Priti Patel: "In line with the Government’s manifesto position in favour of First Past the Post, which provides for strong and clear local accountability, and reflects that transferable voting systems were rejected by the British people in the 2011 nationwide referendum, the Home Office will work with the Cabinet Office and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to change the voting system for all Combined Authority Mayors, the Mayor of London and PCCs to First Past the Post. This change will require primary legislation, which we will bring forward when Parliamentary time allows." questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2021-03-16/hcws849/Well done that girl. |
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Post by The Bishop on Mar 16, 2021 14:24:14 GMT
Though not saying when this change will actually be made suggests it could be going in the next Tory GE manifesto?
(as it was in 2017, before being long grassed following the sub-optimal - for them - result)
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Post by johnloony on Mar 16, 2021 14:52:26 GMT
Though not saying when this change will actually be made suggests it could be going in the next Tory GE manifesto? (as it was in 2017, before being long grassed following the sub-optimal - for them - result) I thought it was in the 2019 manifesto? |
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Post by johnloony on Mar 16, 2021 14:54:40 GMT
Announcement from Priti Patel: "In line with the Government’s manifesto position in favour of First Past the Post, which provides for strong and clear local accountability, and reflects that transferable voting systems were rejected by the British people in the 2011 nationwide referendum, the Home Office will work with the Cabinet Office and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to change the voting system for all Combined Authority Mayors, the Mayor of London and PCCs to First Past the Post. This change will require primary legislation, which we will bring forward when Parliamentary time allows." questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2021-03-16/hcws849/Riiiight, a referendum 10 years ago when the main issue wasn't actually the electoral system at all, but how hard voters wanted to kick Nick Clegg? Sure, sound basis for action now. Not that SV as a system does anything other than stink to high heaven, but reform in this direction seems needless and arbitrary.
Of greater relevance (and even more recent) was the public consultation process in which the vast majority of respondents said that the Mayor of London should be elected by AV, not FPTP. That was only 22 years ago. |
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Post by edgbaston on Mar 17, 2021 3:27:49 GMT
Announcement from Priti Patel: "In line with the Government’s manifesto position in favour of First Past the Post, which provides for strong and clear local accountability, and reflects that transferable voting systems were rejected by the British people in the 2011 nationwide referendum, the Home Office will work with the Cabinet Office and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to change the voting system for all Combined Authority Mayors, the Mayor of London and PCCs to First Past the Post. This change will require primary legislation, which we will bring forward when Parliamentary time allows." questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2021-03-16/hcws849/ Good. SV is possibly the worst of all the systems. Will this create 25 London assembly constituencies or is the change just for the mayoral race? This would work quite nicely as Westminster seats could be grouped into 3s to create the seats. |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Mar 17, 2021 9:26:13 GMT
Interesting point. The Conservatives rely on the 'London Member' top-up seats to make a decent Assembly group - otherwise there would be a very large Labour majority and no minority parties at all. So I expect they will be preserved.
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