Even more simply, an SNP role in the governing majority gives the Tories an attack line, in a way the Lib Dems can't quite match up to. (View Post)

That's true, and the absence of a 1968 student movement that matured over time explains this, imo. Leaving them in arrested development as a Labour Party subsidiary for scuffed kids. I've d… (View Post)

It's unlikely that either the SNP or LDs would personally benefit from PR in Westminster elections. The former would be down to 15-30 MPs for the foreseeable future. The latter would immediately… (View Post)

Purely as a hypothetical, if a future government reduced people's rights by exiting an international court, would you be first to man the barricades in the all-out war of resistance? (View Post)

I propose that Westminster is the font of absolute power, and NI governance is agreed in international treaties. So those voting systems would require the highest thresholds for change in my view. wi… (View Post)