It did. It was brought in by Attlee's government. (View Post)

FPT, @Mexicanpete Cameron could have changed the system, in order to assist the Labour Party, but oddly, he chose not to. (View Post)

Basing constituency sizes upon registered voters is not aome evil innovation on the part of the Conservatives, but rather, how it has been done since universal suffrage became a thing. Equal represen… (View Post)

There’s a difficulty, in cases where certain groups, with the backing of the a considerable minority of the population, are trying to destroy the government, as in Northern Ireland, or the industrial… (View Post)

Absolute poverty means $2.65 a day. I simply don’t know how anyone could survive on that. But, that was the lot of 89% of the world’s people, in 1820, compared to 8% today. In absolute terms, that’s … (View Post)