The starting point of that premise is that a Unionist party would have to be winning enough constituency seats in an area to bring the list options into play for Unionist voters. Possibly in the bord… (View Post)

What you mean by "factored in" is that a significant part of the electorate are willing to just ignore it. Many will be utterly appalled by Polanski's antisemitism but I fear many of t… (View Post)

I think you are grossly underestimating the invulnerability to embarrassment of the modern politician. In any serious country Farage would already be free to spend a lot more time with his £5m and wo… (View Post)

One of the major defects of the Scottish system is that it makes very little difference who wins. If the Lib Dems do win the odd constituency off the SNP (I remain to be convinced personally) then th… (View Post)

Have you actually listened to either of them? (View Post)