There is no wasted vote. Say 5% vote Green and they get one seat. Then 5% vote SNP but they get 50. 15% vote UKIP and they get maybe three. The calls for electoral reform will become a cacophony that even Lab/Con cannot ignore. Well, hopefully.
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Show posts MenuQuote from: The Legendary Shark on 06 May, 2015, 08:32:34 PMI have literally no idea what you're talking about now. What specifically do you mean by 'social money'? Are you talking about local taxation that is then spent specifically on local healthcare? If that's the case and you end up with a ton of little fiefdoms, you lose the economy of scale that makes the NHS work. At best, you end up with a system colossally more expensive to people (via NI or direct payments) than what we have now.
Social money would allow all healthcare (including dentistry, prescriptions, opticians, etc.) to be free. That's what social money does - it works for society and not, as is currently the case with private money, the other way around.
Quote from: robert_ellis on 05 May, 2015, 12:58:14 PMHow on earth did you get those extra pages to stay in place?
Get out your glue & scissors and you too could make a COMPLETE Judge Dredd Cursed Earth with the missing stories...
Quote from: Jock Savage on 04 May, 2015, 04:59:25 PMNo party's manifesto bears the slightest relation to what they'd actually do if given power.Have you read them all? I have, from cover to cover. I'd say all of them this time round are a broad reflection of what a party will do if it found itself in power with no limitations. The snag is when that doesn't happen, which means, for example, the SNP won't get its way on all its policies, even if takes every Scottish seat, and the surprisingly impressive Liberal Democrat manifesto will see its major policies ignored but minor ones potentially creep in, if the party ends up in coalition again. (There is of course a certain amount of Bullshit Button required while reading manifestos, not least with Tory cheerleading about the NHS, and indeed UKIP doing the same.)
Quote from: Jamie1000013 on 02 May, 2015, 02:20:46 PMFor future reference, Disposable Heroes are great if you don't have a local store that does FCBD. They charge 99p per item for postage, but that's it. (And my three comics today showed up in a sturdy cardboard box that puts the Mega Collection deliveries to shame.) Their 2015 page is now blank, but I guess you could always give them a call to see if any 2000 ADs are still in stock. (And, of course, grab something else if anything takes your fancy, to make it worth their while.)
Is there anywhere I can buy this? Don't think my local comic book store got it in :-(.
Quote from: Jimmy Baker's Assistant on 01 May, 2015, 06:40:25 PMThe whole point of devolving to regions rather than England as a whole is to try to avoid a national government becoming so powerful that it rivals the UK governmentNot really. The point of devolving to regions is so said regions can make adjustments to policy that directly benefit the people who live there, depending on local economies and other factors. What works for Manchester doesn't necessarily work for Truro.