On a point of accuracy, the US uses census findings, not estimates. I don’t agree with using population. After all, the purpose of a GE is to choose a government, and if you draw boundaries to equali… (View Post)

Sorry to hark back to discussion on the previous thread, but you can’t blame Cameron and Osborne for the use of the registered electorate, rather than population, as the basis for revising Parliament… (View Post)

Who says bipartisanship is dead? (View Post)

No it isn’t. The comment implies that there’s a randomness, or capriciousness, about the way FPTP as practised in the UK translates the popular vote into seats. Not so. What FPTP almost always does, … (View Post)

I am anything but a Johnson fan but I’m 100% behind him on this one. The Chinese are offended? Oh dear. How sad. Never mind. Il n’a que la vérité qui blesse. Bloomberg should be ashamed of himself fo… (View Post)