I'm like a broken record on this, but AV is not PR. It's a perfectly plausible outcome that the Tories would do even worse under AV than they will under FPTP. (View Post)

To be fair, mind, most analysts I read said "what on earth is he up to? This seems daft." or words to that effect. I'm with BenPointer on this. It was going to shit anyway. (View Post)

Of all the worrying things about SKS, this is the worst. Can you imagine Corbyn in charge during covid? Or for the Ukraine war? Not that it matters nowof course. We dodged that bullet. (View Post)

I've done polling station duty in the past. Driven the sealed boxes to the town hall. Now I wouldn't say state-mamaged fraud is impossible. I've seen Penn and Teller. Trickery is possi… (View Post)

Indeed. But had Remain ever acknowledged the Eurosceptic position at any point in the 1992-2016 period and come to some compromise - like, for example, putting the brakes on at Lisbon - the referendu… (View Post)