Westminster

An EVEL matryoshka parliament?

15/07/2015 thomas 3 Comments

As many people have pointed out (e.g, Lallands Peat Worrier and The Huffington Post), the Tories’ current plans for English

04/07/201521/04/2017 thomas 7 Comments

Although the SNP benefitted hugely from First Past The Post (FPTP) in May (gaining almost all the Scottish seats on

08/05/2015 thomas 12 Comments

I wrote a blog post on the 5th of October 2014 (just a couple of weeks after the No vote)

07/05/201508/05/2015 thomas 2 Comments

Friday at 4.30: Labour has won Edinburgh South. It’s looking like this might be their only Scottish seat. Going to

06/05/2015 thomas 2 Comments

According to Wikipedia, Northern Ireland’s “SDLP is […] working to strengthen its ties with the Parliamentary Labour Party, whose whip

02/05/2015 thomas 4 Comments

In the House of Commons, the MPs supporting the government are sitting to the right of the Speaker, while the

20/04/2015 thomas 4 Comments

David Torrance seems to have become the latest cheerleader for the (wrong) idea that the largest party must form the