Being a fan of early 80s music, it's always surprising when you discover a really good track you didn't know about, such as this one — "She's A Magazine" by New Musik, from 1980:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRuGWMk1sZ4
"No Heart" by Robert Marlow - produced by Vince Clarke of Depeche Mode/Yazoo/Erasure fame.
Being a fan of early 80s music, it's always surprising when you discover a really good track you didn't know about, such as this one — "She's A Magazine" by New Musik, from 1980:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRuGWMk1sZ4
"No Heart" by Robert Marlow - produced by Vince Clarke of Depeche Mode/Yazoo/Erasure fame.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ8Nx7u-zso
Thanks Sunil!
A couple more obscure Vince productions:
"TV Glare" by Absolute: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NytlRoMPPY0
"Just Me Alone" by Twilight: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS9nzOwM-Yk
Then they will just look like all of the other tedious PR bores. Wanting to change a system simply because another one suits them more.
The only party which emerges with any credit on electoral systems is the Conservatives. Prepared to argue for the best system with the strongest constituency link despite it not working in their favour.
Then they will just look like all of the other tedious PR bores. Wanting to change a system simply because another one suits them more.
The only party which emerges with any credit on electoral systems is the Conservatives. Prepared to argue for the best system with the strongest constituency link despite it not working in their favour.
The Tories don't seem to get much credit in Scotland for being in favour of the Union despite it preventing them having a majority at Westminster.
Then they will just look like all of the other tedious PR bores. Wanting to change a system simply because another one suits them more.
The only party which emerges with any credit on electoral systems is the Conservatives. Prepared to argue for the best system with the strongest constituency link despite it not working in their favour.
If they had their way you'd have the weakest constituency link of any system proposed, because they want to shuffle the constituency boundaries around every five years to keep the population variation low. This will mean that not only do voters have very little idea which constituency they're in, as it bears no ressemblance to any normal geographic boundary and changes all the time, but in many cases they won't be able to vote on whether or not their MP served them well, because they have been moved to a different seat from the one the MP who did or didn't help them is now standing in.
Until 1918, Labour was essentially a sister party of the Liberals. Many of Labour's early gains were achieved by the Liberals standing aside. Various other candidates stood as Lib-Lab.
The most likely in Wythenshawe seems to be that they'll do better than the poll rating but not come close to winning, which should have a broadly neutral effect. The trouble with winning the Euros, if they do, is that people will say it's because it was the Euros. Like Mike I think they probably do need to win a by-election, or at least come very close.
There are a whole host of local council elections on the same day as the Euros.
People won't be solely talking about the Euro results.
Good point, especially as the council elections come first - the Euros only get announced on the Sunday (so that the whole continent declares together - some countries don't vote till later in the week).
Lucky break for the British to snag the Iowa-like "first to vote in the union" slot. They should be pushing for party primaries on the same principles to make the most of it.
Then they will just look like all of the other tedious PR bores. Wanting to change a system simply because another one suits them more.
The only party which emerges with any credit on electoral systems is the Conservatives. Prepared to argue for the best system with the strongest constituency link despite it not working in their favour.
Really ? I thought they want the boundary changed all the tine to suit some stupid arithmetical formula !
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Iirc it not only fell by one vote, but it wasn't over whether to keep FPTP. It was the version to replace it with that was the contentious point.
"TV Glare" by Absolute:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NytlRoMPPY0
"Just Me Alone" by Twilight:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS9nzOwM-Yk
"One Day" by Vince Clarke & Paul Quinn:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O8r4vGdIKk
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NZgBK6h5mxk&
Blancmange's masterpiece, IMO, is Blind Vision, although they're better known for Living On The Ceiling.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YAvhMTgE8o
The only party which emerges with any credit on electoral systems is the Conservatives. Prepared to argue for the best system with the strongest constituency link despite it not working in their favour.