And there is a good chance that Cleggy has told InCompo to go as he is more interested in playing with Foggy........
JoxerTheDeityPirate · Member since
Mr Mercury wrote:
JoxerTheDeityPirate wrote:
Golden Brown is packing his bags..
And there is a good chance that Cleggy has told InCompo to go as he is more interested in playing with Foggy........
and if Harriet Harmon takes over does that make her Nora? :-p i think a LibLab pact is now very much on the table and we may just get a fairer voting system out of it too. i for one have problems with the Tories running a UK Parliament when they only won 8 seats outside of England,that for me doesnt seem right but a Lib Lab pact with the aid/hindrance of a DUP/SNP/Plaid Cymondown alliance will see more representation for the whole of the UK as a whole
JoxerTheDeityPirate · Member since
so,i go to the shop with a labour government and come home an hour later to a tory one! :-p
tcc · Member since
Good luck with your new coalition government :-)
«¤~Mrš. BÃD GÛŸ~¤» · Member since
GratefulFan wrote: Sir GH wrote:
A few years ago the people of Canada had a chance to change the voting system to allow for more proportional representation (i.e. not making it just about seats, but the number of votes as well), but it was voted down about 60% to 40%.
But the people of Canada as a whole are very ignorant on matters of politics and the parliamentary/voting system, so this wasn't a surprise. Like the current situation in UK, there was a chance a couple years ago that Canada's three opposition parties could have formed a coalition, but our prime minister denounced it as "unconstitutional"... and 1/3 of the population still supports him. I envy the people of Britain for understanding how the system works, and the politicians for adhering to it in all circumstances.
I was going to make these same points yesterday but have been uber swamped, so thanks for all that typing. :) People in general definitely didn't understand what was being proposed when proportional voting was voted down in Ontario (I don't recall the question being put federally? Maybe I'm wrong). My mother is a very smart woman who consumes a lot of media and even she had things wrong at fundamental levels. Thought that meant that parties could slide in whoever they wanted, so you were voting into a black box essentially. Not true of course, as lists had to be made public prior to election day. She also had some perception that it was good for the GTA and bad for everybody else. So the information campaign clearly failed if it failed somebody like my mom.
I have spent a great number of life moments rolling my eys at Stephen Harper and quietly despairing over some piece of his underhanded bullshit or other, but never had I actually seethed until that stunt with the 'unconstitutional' coalition. Our PM and his party are willing to actively encourage ingorance, hell CAUSE ignorance, about something so fundamental to our democracy, for short term political gain. And then he prorogues parliament (twice!) to make it all go away. And, in general, most people are okay with that? Kind of unbeliveable.
