So, like you say, if a party tries to restrict voter choice by standing fewer candidates then it risks losing out. There's quite a history of that in different ways in Irish politics. The curren… (View Post)

Also, I get the impression that the counts in Ireland are taking longer because politics in Ireland is also becoming more fractured, so there are more candidates and it takes more rounds of transfers… (View Post)

More correctly the number of seats a party wins is influenced by how the voters react to the number of candidates the party fields, and the qualities of those candidates. No other electoral system gi… (View Post)

The second-shortest serving Chancellor of 2022. I'd guess he'd be the one most people would struggle to name when asked who were the four Chancellors of 2022. (View Post)

I would only accept a payoff for accepting US sovereignty if I could take the money and emigrate immediately. No amount of money would reconcile me to living under the jurisdiction of Trump's FB… (View Post)