The 2 downsides of STV are the time it takes to count and the fact parties can game the system by just standing the number of candidates they expect to win as candidates. Which means that a political… (View Post)

I read it very much as it being easier to just let things continue as they were (he was in Guantanamo where the US were torturing people) rather than doing the correct thing. And that's the curr… (View Post)

He believes in the need for Jury trials and is willing to give up his seat to prove the point.. I don't think it's an odd hill more that he has a better sensible of principles than others -… (View Post)

There is only so much advertising money to go round. Force the BBC to take ads and C4 / C5 / ITV will be struggling to survive. (View Post)

Basically this says the country is going to go into (un)managed decline as we are doing nothing to help productivity improve. Because no matter what people in whitehall think productivity comes from … (View Post)