http://jackdeighton.co.uk/2009/05/26/first-past-the-post/ Writing, Fiction, Football and Whatever Takes My Fancy Sun, 20 May 2012 11:56:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://jackdeighton.co.uk/2009/05/26/first-past-the-post/comment-page-1/#comment-21772 To AV Or Not To AV – A Son of the Rock -- Jack Deighton Wed, 04 May 2011 18:21:49 +0000 http://jackdeighton.co.uk/?p=1957#comment-21772 [...] Not that I think it’s a perfect system, there isn’t one – and there’s not a snowball’s chance that anyone but Labour will win in my parliamentary constituency, Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, anyway, under any system – but simply that it’s a (tiny) bit fairer than the so-called first past the post method which I have blogged about before. [...] [...] Not that I think it’s a perfect system, there isn’t one – and there’s not a snowball’s chance that anyone but Labour will win in my parliamentary constituency, Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, anyway, under any system – but simply that it’s a (tiny) bit fairer than the so-called first past the post method which I have blogged about before. [...]

]]> http://jackdeighton.co.uk/2009/05/26/first-past-the-post/comment-page-1/#comment-2924 Susan finally goes off Boyle as the Daily Telegraph continues to spare no expense… - Scottish Roundup Sun, 31 May 2009 12:04:10 +0000 http://jackdeighton.co.uk/?p=1957#comment-2924 [...] Jack Deighton discussed the prospect of electoral reform, notably the myth that first past the post returns a strong government. Deighton flips the argument on its head asking whether a strong government is actually desirable. I think he has a point. Truman’s “weak” ‘Do-Nothing Congress’ accomplished a number of feats. However, yours truly is still to be convinced by the merits of PR, especially those arguments emanating from Nick Clegg. Political Dissuasion simply “shan’t be voting” at all in the next general election, whilst A Place To Stand has a number of questions about electoral reform. [...] [...] Jack Deighton discussed the prospect of electoral reform, notably the myth that first past the post returns a strong government. Deighton flips the argument on its head asking whether a strong government is actually desirable. I think he has a point. Truman’s “weak” ‘Do-Nothing Congress’ accomplished a number of feats. However, yours truly is still to be convinced by the merits of PR, especially those arguments emanating from Nick Clegg. Political Dissuasion simply “shan’t be voting” at all in the next general election, whilst A Place To Stand has a number of questions about electoral reform. [...]

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