Election reflexions
The SNP has lost a lot of excellent MPs, and Westminster will be poorer without them. Amongst them, my local
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Author: thomas
I don’t understand…
I don’t understand why the vast majority of people haven’t sussed yet that Brexit will be an unmitigated disaster. I
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The irrelevance of the main political axis of the 20th century
In most democracies, politics in the past century was dominated by two large parties – a socialist or social-democratic party
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Mentally accepting proportional representation
I’ve seen quite a lot of people girning about elected representatives as if they weren’t properly elected if they didn’t
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Net migration in the tens of thousands? If only!
I’ve no idea why people are saying May will struggle to bring net migration down to under 100,000 per year.
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Notional results
Computing notional results is a useful technique for comparing two FPTP elections with each other. The problem it is trying
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Last vote ever?
It felt really important and weird to cast my vote today, because I realised that it could be the last
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