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If the referendum were rerun today there would be a very different result – politicalbetting.com
If the referendum were rerun today there would be a very different result – politicalbetting.com
Britons favour proportional representation (PR) over first past the post (FPTP), with support highest among Reform UK and Lib Dem votersAll Britons: 44% PR / 23% FPTPReform UK: 62% / 17%Lib Dems: 58% / 22%Labour: 48% / 24%Conservative: 39% / 41%https://t.co/MGHGgW2y3p pic.twitter.com/qWSA1drSLw
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https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cma-clears-vodafone-three-merger-subject-to-legally-binding-commitments
Hurrah for the edit facilities.
It was striking how dismissive Starmer was when asked about this yesterday by Ed Davey at PMQs
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/12/05/james-dyson-rachel-reeves-budget-egregious-act-self-harm/
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/dec/04/starmer-seeks-to-relaunch-premiership-with-new-promise-to-crack-down-on-crime
Does quick maths....they aren't going to be paid very much.....
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/diane-abbott-flounders-over-labours-police-funding-again-in-embarrassing-tv-interview-a3592656.html
Do you not have access to the news?
This merger (then likely outright takeover by Vodafone) has been known about for nearly three years.
I am not sure the NI changes were wise, but tumbling Dyson's and Clarkson's inheritance tax avoidance game is fine by me.
He really is out of ideas
There are some innovations happening soon. The EMPCC is all electronic and opens next week on my manor for example.
https://www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/aboutus/our-hospitals/our-future-hospitals/east-midlands-planned-care-centre/
But we need that sort of infrastructure every year to meet these targets.
Not that I have ever dun that.
Auto-correct is the bane of my existence.
(No, not like that, Gregg.)
Not quite Diane Abbott levels of policing budgets, but not far off.
Oh, and how much will the Employer NI changes cost the police, does that also need to come out of the £100m?
AV isn't PR (see here https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/voting-systems/types-of-voting-system/alternative-vote/), which is what the question asks about, and in many instances is actually less proportional than FPTP (a difficult feat).
So the premise of the thread is simply wrong - the poll doesn't show that voters regret how they voted in the 2011 referendum at all. It is like saying that because Britons back assisted dying they would vote to bring back capital punishment, or for that matter going to war with Portugal - the two proposals are simply unrelated.
The government have still be majorly spinning,
"The extra patrols will be paid for, the Home Office says, by efficiency measures such as standardising procurement.... But the promise is not quite what it seems. The 13,000 extra officers include only 3,000 fully-warranted police - the remainder are made up of community support officers (PCSOs) and volunteer special constables."
"Yvette Cooper is pressed on the fact that fewer than a third of the extra 13,000 police officers promised will be new recruits."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/crmn2jve0jpt
And against this background,
Met faces service cuts without more cash, says chief
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgdzp5ew3po
If its rubbish use a bit of common sense?
I doubt £80k covers the cost of the Academy before they go near the beat.
On my feed this morning, an unusual case where a very short-sighted elderly driver, who could only read a number plate at 3m rather than 20m received a short prison sentence for killing someone with their motor vehicle. Normally it would just be a revocation is licence and not prosecuted.
82 year old drove straight into a 70 year old man riding a cycle from behind, whilst going in the same direction.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/real-life/daughter-calls-law-change-after-25068908
I think we're going to see some change on these regulations in the next year or two, alongside something on graduated driving licences for young drivers, since under 24 (for men especially) and over ~75 are the ages are where KSI rates skyrocket, as part of the current road safety review.
Providing practical alternatives for people who cannot drive safely is important, and that means buses and safe active travel. My photo quota for today:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/reported-road-casualties-great-britain-older-and-younger-driver-factsheets-2023/reported-road-casualties-in-great-britain-older-driver-factsheet-2023
“let thanks be to our Lord Jesus who died on the cross at Calvary, let us pray for the forgiveness of our sins, we are all sinners, god be praised, in the name of Jesus, ok bye,
speak later”…”hi, I’m on the Elizabeth line and it’s a bit delayed, I think there in about 15 minutes, cheers”.
EDIT: just noticed he’s wearing a baseball cap with “BLESSED” written on it.
Interestingly, getting rid of them was an old Labour thing. That and replacing magistrates with judges.
Apart from that he wants to employ people in Malaysia (on Malaysian wages, Ts and Cs) but have them working in the UK.
But he might deserve some credit for his apprenticeship scheme, time will tell.
The danger of young male drivers is pretty well know - but over 75 women ?
A graph showing KSIs of pedestrians and cyclists by car/ HGV / PSV drivers broken down by age/gender would be interesting if an organisation produced the stats.
Though the graph does indicate risk-taking / competency at the age extremes, but it might be that a lot of 86+ year olds involved in a car accident die
Both are regional British businesses too.
Somewhat embarrassing for Macron not to have a PM for his big party at Notre Dame this weekend, with 50 heads of State and Government expected to attend.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/12/04/france-government-confidence-vote/
This article confirms that.
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2024/12/356_387805.html
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Park An-su, who briefly assumed the role of martial law commander, said Thursday that he learned of the martial law declaration through President Yoon Seok Yeol's public announcement on Tuesday night.
During an emergency parliamentary defense committee inquiry on Thursday, Park and acting Minister of National Defense Kim Seon-ho, who was a vice defense minister until early Thursday, said that the order to deploy troops to the National Assembly and the order for their withdrawal came from former defense minister Kim Yong-hyun.
"I did not know about the deployment of troops. I did not give the order," Park said, adding that he was informed of his appointment as martial law commander during a meeting chaired by Kim Yong-hyun, after Yoon's declaration of martial law.
The acting defense minister also said he became aware of the martial law declaration from media reports.
While these military officials declined to have been involved with the martial law schemes from the start, the former defense minister is reported to have remained in the underground control room of the Ministry of National Defense headquarters, issuing detailed instructions for the martial law operation from the moment Yoon declared the nationwide martial law until it was lifted...
..Although it is unclear whether the former defense chief personally drafted the martial law proclamation decree, Army Chief of Staff Park explained that the former defense minister provided the decree to him.
Despite Park's suggestion that the decree might need further legal review to determine whether there were any unlawful articles, Park said Kim Yong-hyun insisted that "the matter has already been legally reviewed" as he pressed for the immediate announcement.
The issued decree included a provision in its first article that "all political activities, including the activities of the National Assembly, political parties, political gatherings and protests are prohibited."
This has raised concerns that such a measure, which restricts the National Assembly's ability to demand the lifting of martial law, is unconstitutional, as it goes beyond both the Constitution and the Martial Law Act...
My earlier post was not uncritical but all yours are a not a particularly imaginative version of "Reeves is shit".
Anyway I'm off to work. I can't spend all day with all you job seeker claimants.
Im glad to see youre coming round to my point of view
He raises the fair point of why would anyone start a business in the UK ? We re progressively making our country uncompetitive,
You'd save everyone a lot of reading time if you just posted "Reeves is shit" every post. Your posts generally say nothing more, so that saves both you and us time.
Mrs B of great lamented memory was "leader" of six "Independents" on a council of 52 where conrol was split between four groupings. By leader I mean she told the other five what to do. Through five changes of control on the council Mrs B remained the representative on the Local Authority Association whatever it was called. She effectively played one off against another.
The LDs have always assumed they would do that under PR. That is why Blair went for closed De Hondt for the Euro elections. Didn't work as the electorate voted them out when they wanted change - ie no more Blair.
Even in Ireland this time where they use the only remotely fair system STV Fine Gael managed to lose a seat on the last count even though they had two candidates still in the run with way more votes together than the candidate who was elected. They were too close in numbers to be voted out. I must admit I thought that was not possible, so I learnt something.
Also for STV to produce PR you need large constituencies with at least ten members. 3, 4 or 5 member constituencies still produce a carve up, again vide Ireland.
"13,000 additional neighbourhood police and community PCSOs; and specialist
domestic abuse advisers in 999 control rooms at peak times
Police Efficiency and Collaboration Programme
Amount re-allocated,annualised,
£400m
A quiet British success story compared to consumer brands such as Dyson.
* obviously we are talking normal salaries not CEO comp.
At the moment FPTP hits Reform most, so no surprise to see their supporters most in favour of a switch of to PR given 14% of the vote in July got Reform a mere 0.7% of MPs. In 2011 many Reform voters would have been Tory or working class Labour supporters who voted No to AV.
LD supporters also in favour though the over 70 MPs they now have means their 12% of the vote is more fairly reflected than it was. Labour voters in favour more narrowly and no surprise given 34% of the vote won them a massive 63% of the seats.
Tories now also effectlvely split and with FPTP supporters just 2% ahead of PR backers now in Badenoch's party.
FPTP hit the Tories too in July with 24% of the vote giving them only 19% of the seats