And the 2010 coalition rather proves the point. The Lib Dems had to abandon one of their signature manifesto commitments on tuition fees as part of coalition negotiations and were then electorally an… (View Post)

PR just exposes the chance of coalitions forming where parties with limited and highly localised support can become kingmakers. Our parliament is supposed to be adversarial, it is supposed to be form… (View Post)

I'm instinctively opposed to PR, I don't actually think it fixes anything, fundamentally. Our parliamentary system just isn't built like that. I'm also far from convinced that cam… (View Post)

That's like saying you're against vegetarianism because Hitler was vegetarian... (View Post)

Like what I had a vasectomy and a few days later my eldest "accidentally" kicked me in the nuts. I developed a haematoma the size of an orange. All the docs in A&E wanted a gander... (View Post)