Isn't Lord Buckethead now running under a new name now due to legal issues?
Poor man died of lung cancer.
Jennifer Arcuri could be coming back to bite Boris
Don't know enough about the legal issues here to say if this is just 'a woman scorned' or whether she could really bring down her ex...
Not sure but i feel if there was a smoking gun in relation to Arcuri, we'd have seen or heard it by now. Same with cummings. Still, it's keeping the whole sleaze/corruption angle in the headlines so it's serving a purpose. If they start bleeding votes in upcoming by elections, then it starts getting serious for johnson.
The character was from a film and someone else bought the rights.
Count Binface.
Maybe I'm wrong here but I got the impression the investigation was shelved first time round because it was shortly after BoJO's brush with death and at the height of the pandemic. So maybe there's a greater willingnes to get stuck in now and not be perceived to be delving into 'trivialities' at a time of crisis.
That article seems to emphasise the blameworthiness of Boris doing her business favours before she had, ahem, reciprocated. Investiigation should be entertaining if it focuses on that aspect...
Brilliant :D
How does that tally when the MET are under tory direction and won't even start investigations where obvious ones are needed.
Plenty of smoking guns but plenty of prevention from action tbh.
Politics is more often than not about picking the least shi7 option rather than going for the good one.
That's the beauty of STV, you get more opportunity to rule out the worst candidates. Still confused as to how they persuaded the country to keep their existing system.
Tally with what exactly? There was already a police investigation into all this and it led pretty much nowhere so I'm just not inclined to be confident that the contents of Jennifer Arcuris diaries will lead to that being reassessed. That's all I was saying.
Easy.
1: They rushed so there was no proper debate.
2: They fudge it by calling it Alternative Vote but not explaining how that would work. The electorate were confused.
3: They made it an anti-Tory and anti-Labour vote, and campaigned against it.
Referendums are not run properly in Britain.
Multi seat constituencies keep out the worst offenders even when the party has a solid vote in the area.
https://www.bestforbritain.org/mps_in_safer_seats_more_likely_to_have_a_second_job
Second Job MP's are overwhelmingly older male Tories in safe seats.
Boris' plan to limit second job hours only affected only a handful and a 20 hours a week would only affect one.
The alternative vote was very badly explained by UK media. It suggested that results were likely to be changed rather than state quite clearly that it could only affect marginal seats. Considering how many different voting systems there are in the UK you can't blame the electorate.
The irony is of course our system was introduced by the UK to protect the Unionist minority and has survived two FPTP referendums that tried to remove it. The Scottish Parliament system is way more complicated, and totally rigged against the SNP. Also winning 95% of a country's MP's is not a mandate for independence.
[QUOTE]"Referendums are not run properly in Britain"[/QUOTE]
It definitely looks like that's the case.
(anyone know the quick way of multi-quoting posts now?)
All newly formed parliaments and assemblies in the UK use some form of AV.
Scotland,Wales,NI and London all have multi seat or AV so you would assume that means the people making the laws in the UK believe FPTP is the wrong system.
No, it means Labour and the Tories think it is good enough for the colonies or meaningless talk shops like the London one but will not change where it matters.
How exactly did the Alternative Vote system differ to our own?
It was what we use for Presidential elections and by-elections (well, in theory there could be a multi-seat by-election, but I don't think its ever happened).
It does not really provide for any form of proportionality, but deals with split vote situations - such as a Unionist candidate getting in when there was a strong majority over them for Nationalists, but badly split across the SDLP and SF (South Down in 2017 for instance). It doesn't particularly help smaller parties usually but can be of a big help to mid-sized parties that otherwise get shafted by FPTP - Lib Dems and Greens particularly.
In GB it'd have caused some interesting outcomes, the "Red Wall" might have fallen earlier with UKIP or BXP votes transferring to Tory on elimination.
Though interestingly the Tories have plans to get rid of the limited ARV system for mayoral contests and revert to FPTP. Ditto for those regions which directly elect police/crime commissioner roles (second link)
London mayoral election to be changed to First Past the Post system under Government plans | Evening Standard
First past the post would diminish mayoral contests | Local Government Chronicle (LGC) (lgcplus.com)
Most importantly it points out assembly elections will stay the same because FPTP suits Labour. It's also not "complicated" like they call it.
The whole directly elected mayor was designed because the Tories don't have a hope under the GLC system
breezy1985 Most importantly it points out assembly elections will stay the same because FPTP suits Labour. It's also not "complicated" like they call it.
If I can get my head around FTV pretty much anyone can. I'm shocked that they can get away with claiming that.
From my memory the slogan 'one person, one vote' was a key factor. Now we can argue all day that ticking more than one selection in order of preference doesn't suddenly nullify the concept of 'one person, one vote', but the FPP campaign successfully got the idea out there that ticking just one box was the 'British way'. There was also an anti-ARV campaign on costs. Why spend £250M on ARV when we could spend it on the NHS instead (they recycled that one for Brexit as we know).
Can see an example of both these if you google search images for 'one person, one vote, 2011 referendum' - Unfortunately I've no idea how to post images any longer.
I've said before that the LibDems missed a trick. This didn't have to go to a referendum, there is no constitution that needed changing so the Libs should just have made it a plank of government that it would be voted through parliament in the first few weeks. Otherwise, no deal. Obviously future parliaments could undo it, but those parliaments would have had many MPs elected via ARV who would be wary of undoing it. So it just might have stuck and become the accepted system. Missed opportunity.
The Scottish Parliament system is indeed complicated, same one they use in Germany, but I'm not sure it's that rigged against the SNP tbh. In this year's elections they received just under 48% of the vote and won just under half the seats, which seems pretty much how you'd want it to be. In the 2019 uk elections, by contrast, they got less of the vote (in scotland) but a much higher proportion of the seats. It merely serves to emphasise just how disproportionate the prevailing system is.
I also wonder what would happen if you swapped the AV referendum and Brexit referendum.
People in GB unused to referenda I think failed to realize how much they can be swayed by anti government votes. The AV vote was held when Cameron was still riding a wave of popularity with voters and general optimism was high in the UK
So the Health and Care Bill is back before the Commons today and tomorrow for the report stage and third reading, including a scheduled vote on a government amendment which proposes to decouple the means test and £86,000 cap, a measure being said to benefit well off families.
Definitely some anger brewing over this, particularly among northern mps where this is a really major issue. Only 3 tory mps voted against this at second reading, if Johnson imposes a 3 line whip, will be interesting to see if there are a few more.
They told everyone they were too stupid to understand any other system
Boris Johnson CBI speech: PM announces that new homes will need electric car charging points - YouTube
From 14:30. This is a shambles by Johnson - it's definitely not the carefully choreographed bumbling randomness that has endeared him to people over the decades. It's either 'Monday morning tiredness !' or someone completely stressed with the job.
The anti-PR side successfully turned AV into an anti-LibDem campaign and it was soon forgotten. If there was a source of complacency it was the Scottish Independence referendum.
And you didn't even mention the paean to Peppa Pig and the accelerating car noises
And there was me thinking the return of Jennifer Arcuri could be humiliating for him; he seems capable of generating quite enough embarrassment of his own accord...
