STV is likely to play out quite a bit differently if ever used at Westminster than in Ireland because there's more than three times as many people per elected representative. Politics is surpris… (View Post)

This sort of thing is going to vary by constituency, but in a geographically large constituency like Cork South-West what tends to happen with multiple candidates is that they will work different par… (View Post)

Sadly malc, some of us no longer have grannies to sell. I'm more than eight years a grandorphan. (View Post)

Is the Bank of England's role in setting interest rates actually codified in statute, or is it simply a decision Gordon Brown took that everyone has stuck with since? I think the difference in B… (View Post)

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)