I’m not quite sure why you fetishise a bit-for-bit over semantic equivalence. Doesn’t it turn “it works on my machine” into "it works on my machine as long as it has this sha: … "?

Concessions, or sinecures?

Yeah, STV requires macro-wards that return several members. It does preserve candidate locality however.

You could always season with a pinch of AMS if you wanted to continue the whipping system (which frankly is as much of a mess as FPTP).

Gah, what a fucking irritating paywall.

In any case: worth listening to this man, he’s a thoroughly decent man - his efforts to reduce child poverty as chancellor were pretty effective.

There are ranked choice PR systems, like STV.

Of course if we did get PR here it’d be the worst version that preserves the power of whips to hand out sinecures.

No, it’s not.

Labour canvasser asked why I wasn’t voting that way at the last GE. I said, “I’m a socialist - honestly, would you*?” and he seemed within a heartbeat of agreeing. The local crowd seemed pretty depressed about chasing the Overton window back then [although obviously they will make sympathetic noises towards anyone they’re talking to, that’s part of the job].

[* This isn’t risking a Reform storm - FPTP and I’m in a solidly Labour ward, but they still bothered to knock on doors, which was eye-opening in itself]

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He rode to power on the back of not being from the party behind the least popular government in fucking ages (after 14 years of disaster). He made lots of promises to appeal to the essentially left-wing party that he’s the leader of. In any case, he wound up with a landslide parliamentary majority off the back of around a third of the actual vote.

Since then he’s put Wes Streeting in charge of the NHS and McSweeney in charge of strategy, and has chased the racist vote that’s stoked up by Nige “Brexit” Farage.

So he’s triangulating right to chase the votes of people who can’t stand him and will never vote for him, and in the space of a month has lost 34 approval points from actual Labour voters to wind up with a net -5 approval or something like that.

What’s odd is that I know people who’ve met him and worked with him personally, and they are all largely of the belief that he’s a man of deep principle. Which just goes to show his talent, because he’s hiding it incredibly well at the moment.

I dunno. The temporary flyover near Temple Meads came down after 40 years and that’s looking a lot nicer.

Like most towns that go on forever, there are some nice corners: PRSC for instance.

The answer to all your “okay I was wrong, but…” questions is “no”.

According to Baroness Falkner on R4 this morning, they can use their considerable lobbying power to advocate for “third spaces.” She actually said that about trans people, not intersex, but I presume her response would have been the same.

But in the meantime, going anywhere (or doing any sport) is probably off the cards. But thank goodness we have “clarity”, right?

Well, “senior colleagues” told him not resigning was the thing to do. So add cowardice to the list.

Maybe half that time.

Do the top 1% have more or less than 30% of the total wealth?

It’s around one in two million.

Believe it. Of the eligible electorate, 20% cast a vote for Labour, who wound up with two thirds of the House.

Netware was rock solid.

Led By Donkeys is about five years old. I don’t think that in that period there was a non-Tory government for them to mock, was there?

Minimise your windows one at a time and check that the gnome keyring hasn’t popped up a dialog box sonewhere behind everything else that’s asking you if it’s okay to proceed.