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And now back to the bad

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Whilst I obviously welcome our new overlords, I can’t help but notice that they seem to have an odd idea of electoral reform, and as Tom Harris observes it doesn’t really fit well with either the Tories claim to want to return power to the people, and quite odd that the LibDems seem to be happy going along with it. The particular bit of reform that Mr Harris is concerned about is to change the vote of no-confidence in a government from a simple majority to 55%. Such a change only makes sense in that it allows a minority government … Continue reading →

Starting as they mean to go on?

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This is being widely reported elsewhere (Dizzy> and Old Holborn) but good news is worth repeating. It appears as though steps are already being taken to scrap ID cards. The Identity and passport Service website is advising people to not get ID cards at them moment: “Both Parties that now form the new Government stated in their manifestos that they will cancel Identity Cards and the National Identity Register. We will announce in due course how this will be achieved. Applications can continue to be made for ID cards but we would advise anyone thinking of applying to wait for … Continue reading →

Must read post of the other day

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Having been a little bit busy I didn’t link to this at the time, but even this late in the day as electoral reform is still such a popular topic, Bella Gerens has an excellent post on How to solve the problem of a hung parliament “Whenever constitutional reform is mooted here in the UK, the drive seems to be something along the lines of: the executive has too much power, MPs have too little, and oh yeah, unelected Lords have no place in a democratic nation. (Let’s pretend in this discussion, for the sake of simplicity, that the Lisbon … Continue reading →