I suspect, given JKR's background, much of her leftiness was informed by feminism. If she finds the party has moved away from feminism, it's no surprise she no longer feels she can support … (View Post)

Off thread: wife and daughters are off to see Taylor Swift in London tomorrow so have 48 hours free of parental responsibility and the nicest weekend of the year so far to do it in. The amount of cho… (View Post)

Arguably the Greens in Scotland were more successful in wagging the SNP dog. (View Post)

STV is my favoured system. ISTR FPTP is second above AV, but I can't now think of a good reason why that should be the case. Any systemof party lists like d'hondt comes bottom, though it�… (View Post)

Well said. And nor, I would argue, can you have FPTP - we had an entertaining argument on here some months back about what FPTP means. It was convincingly suggested that technically the system for el… (View Post)