Posts Tagged ‘ House of Commons of the United Kingdom ’

House of Commons to Debate Loan to Ireland

December 15, 2010
By Stephen
House of Commons to Debate Loan to Ireland

Image via Wikipedia This Evening the House of Commons will be debating the Loans to Ireland Bill which will allow the United Kingdom to give a loan of £3,250 million to Ireland. The plan is that the bill will finish off all stages today. It will pass the Committee stage in the whole House. Already today the issue has been raised four times in the House of Commons. The first time by Mark Reckless, MP for Rochester and Strood,...

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If the UK Election had taken place under the List System

May 10, 2010
By Stephen
If the UK Election had taken place under the List System

Image via Wikipedia One of the electoral systems that is currently used in the UK for European Parliament Elections, London Assembly, Welsh Assembly and Scottish Parliament elections is currently being ignored in the talk about a new electoral system for the UK. So I did a little experiment with the Election Calculus Simulator. I used the different nations of the UK as the basis of the constituencies. (For purpose of these I ignored the votes for others, all vote...

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