rural_voter

Why's it widely used though? We went decimal in 1971 and metric around the same time except for the pint and mile. Those units carried on because UKIP members or whatever they were called (the Monday… (View Post)

Anyone struggling to live on £50k/y mystifies me. My red 'vin ordinaire' costs a mere £4 a bottle and it's very good. There are lots of good ones between £4-4.50. Chateau Recougne from Majestic is on… (View Post)

I no longer care which it is although I do care that we get fair voting aka PR out of this mess. That might need Lab and Con to sink below Lib and Brexit in the percentage vote so that Lab and Con &g… (View Post)

Electoral Calculus sets out at least 'seven political tribes'. Finland has PR and reportedly has >>20 parties in parliament. FPTP doesn't cater at all well for this variety. That's why we're no… (View Post)

Fund TV from general taxation. Several countries seem to do so. That saves 10-20% on admin costs. This saving could be given to C4 to enable them to run some ad.-free programmes, e.g. documentaries. … (View Post)