Harry Hayfield
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Post by Harry Hayfield on Sept 7, 2024 6:34:53 GMT
It also depends on what you consider to be the primary purpose of an election - to choose a Parliament or select a government. *ducks and runs* This is a question that needs to be answered before the issue of electoral reform is even addressed. We, the electors, elect a Parliament, however it is the Parliament that should elect the government, as in, we need to move away from the idea that the leader of a political party becomes Prime Minister when they win an election, it should be like in other countries which nominate a Prime Minister from the elected MP's
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sanders
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Post by sanders on Sept 7, 2024 7:47:38 GMT
Apologies if this is not the most appropriate thread to post this, but I must bring to the attention of the forum the following YouTube video: In it, the excellent "Map Men", aka Jay Forman and Mark Cooper-Jones, explore the issue of Gerrymandering in the US in a way that only they can. A fellow Foreman fan - how do?
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Post by cathyc on Sept 7, 2024 8:24:22 GMT
Apologies if this is not the most appropriate thread to post this, but I must bring to the attention of the forum the following YouTube video: In it, the excellent "Map Men", aka Jay Forman and Mark Cooper-Jones, explore the issue of Gerrymandering in the US in a way that only they can. Write to your friends to tell them. fontsarena.com/ugly-gerry/
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The Bishop
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Post by The Bishop on Sept 7, 2024 10:35:08 GMT
Probably not. Giving somebody access to a particular board is a fairly standard feature of forum software which doesn't take a huge amount of processing, and is obviously built into proboards (see the party rooms). Doing it for a particular thread would be an entirely different set of code for something that is extremely unlikely to ever be used. And if it does exist is likely to be a power that is only available to the forum admin (who has been away from the forum due to illness for quite some time). Indeed, it would surely be easier simply to move the thread in question to another section (where it arguably now belongs anyway)
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Foggy
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Post by Foggy on Sept 7, 2024 18:43:40 GMT
It also depends on what you consider to be the primary purpose of an election - to choose a Parliament or select a government. *ducks and runs* This is a question that needs to be answered before the issue of electoral reform is even addressed. We, the electors, elect a Parliament, however it is the Parliament that should elect the government, as in, we need to move away from the idea that the leader of a political party becomes Prime Minister when they win an election, it should be like in other countries which nominate a Prime Minister from the elected MP's I would be in favour of this as long as the transfer of power is still swift - Parliament should meet no later than five days after the GE. If it's clear who the PM is going to be then hold the vote and the swearing-in/reconfirmation within 48 hours of the start of that first meeting.
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john07
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Post by john07 on Sept 7, 2024 20:46:34 GMT
Probably not. Giving somebody access to a particular board is a fairly standard feature of forum software which doesn't take a huge amount of processing, and is obviously built into proboards (see the party rooms). Doing it for a particular thread would be an entirely different set of code for something that is extremely unlikely to ever be used. And if it does exist is likely to be a power that is only available to the forum admin (who has been away from the forum due to illness for quite some time). Indeed, it would surely be easier simply to move the thread in question to another section (where it arguably now belongs anyway) But I thought that threads (or is it sub-threads?) can’t be moved due to an administrator privileges issue? We still have a General Election thread filed under London.
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J.G.Harston
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Post by J.G.Harston on Sept 7, 2024 23:44:32 GMT
This is a question that needs to be answered before the issue of electoral reform is even addressed. We, the electors, elect a Parliament, however it is the Parliament that should elect the government, as in, we need to move away from the idea that the leader of a political party becomes Prime Minister when they win an election, it should be like in other countries which nominate a Prime Minister from the elected MP's I would be in favour of this as long as the transfer of power is still swift - Parliament should meet no later than five days after the GE. If it's clear who the PM is going to be then hold the vote and the swearing-in/reconfirmation within 48 hours of the start of that first meeting. I've posted several times in the past that it should be a standard procedure that when the Monarch asks somebody to form a government, then it explicitly goes to Parliament to confirm the appointment and explicitly demonstate that the appointee *can* hold the confidence of the House.
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Post by islington on Sept 8, 2024 9:35:41 GMT
I would be in favour of this as long as the transfer of power is still swift - Parliament should meet no later than five days after the GE. If it's clear who the PM is going to be then hold the vote and the swearing-in/reconfirmation within 48 hours of the start of that first meeting. I've posted several times in the past that it should be a standard procedure that when the Monarch asks somebody to form a government, then it explicitly goes to Parliament to confirm the appointment and explicitly demonstate that the appointee *can* hold the confidence of the House. No, because the monarch would normally choose someone that has the implied confidence of the House. Most obviously, if the government loses a confidence vote, then in an adversarial system such as we have, that implies that the House has confidence in the LotO as PM. If the government loses a GE, it was formerly the case that it would stay in office and meet the new Parliament and duly have its King's Speech voted down. But if the GE defeat is clear, such a vote would be a foregone conclusion so since 1868 the outgoing PM has resigned as soon as the GE result is clear and the monarch appoints the LotO as PM very quickly after the GE, usually the next day. The key point in all of this is that because of the adversarial nature of the system, if the PM loses the confidence of the House, this very fact implies that the LotO now enjoys that confidence.
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