I had an idea this morning for balancing MP and member votes: approval voting. First MPs vote for as many candidates as they like. Then members get to vote on all the candidates who got a vote from a… (View Post)

"He's popular so we don't care" was more or less their rationale the last time they picked him, IIRC... (View Post)

You were dead on about the "interesting chaos" though ! (View Post)

I think the problem there is that 150 quid is not an expensive laser printer -- it is a cheap laser printer, and thus it will have been value-engineered to death. I spent 250 quid on my multifunction… (View Post)

One of the advantages of PR is that there's a plausible route for some other party to step up if the 2nd party isn't doing an effective job of being the opposition -- which gives them an in… (View Post)