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Verily it is to laugh

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Breaking my own rules here, but really this just amused me far too much to not share (Tip of the hat to Natalie). From Shouting at Cows an article on everyone’s favourite up and coming left wing Journalist: Laurie Penny; The Left-Wing Littlejohn “I have a theory that Laurie Penny is actually brilliant satire. When I read her work, I feel sorry for moderate Tory voters that I would often condemn due to me basing my own mental manifestation of a ‘tory voter’ on the Daily Mail. But actually, Laurie’s column could be a thinly veiled attempt to bring us … Continue reading →

AV – and simple maths

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OK I promise not to say too much more about the AV referendum, I’ve been and voted, and really most everything that could be said has been. However I’m seeing loads of pro-AV articles at the moment, and there is a huge fallacy they’re promoting that is really starting to get on my nerves. The claim that to win in AV you have to have majority support is just nonsense, as a simplistic example can show (well simplistic examples are popular with Yes2AV so I don’t see why I can’t use them). Let’s consider 10 voters just because it makes … Continue reading →

A few hours till voting starts

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So in a few hours people to start to vote on what we’re told is the most important matter for generations, how we get to pick our corrupt troughing MP’s every 5 years. They’ve generously given us the choice between no change or the absolutely smallest change possible. Though of course if we change to AV it would kill off any chance of introducing the real changes we need, as AV will have to be given a chance – 50 years or more to work out the bugs and let people get used to it (so goodbye to right to … Continue reading →