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...
Via Revolts.co.uk An interesting initiative from the House of Lords, in association with the Hansard Society, Lords of the Blog, is a multi-authored blog from nine members of the House of Lords, and which has the potential to be very useful. It is a very interesting blog with a member from the Labour benches, Conservative benches and Crossbenchers (the Convenor of all people!) as well as 6 other independent Lords. It is an interesting read to see what goes...
Bored? Here some recommended reading! Tithe an Oireachtais: An Comhchoiste um Ghnóthaí Eorpacha, An Chéad Tuarascáil, Tuarascáil Eatramhach maidir le Conradh Liospóin um Athchóiriú Houses of the Oireachtas: Joint Committee on European AffairsFirst Report, Interim Report on the Lisbon Reform Treaty (Word Doc) Good report on what organisations (IBEC, IFA etc) think about the treaty. From the UK House of Lords European Union Committee has a report that comes in two volumes. Volume 1 is an The Main report...
The other day I was bored and was watching BBC Parliament. It was a recording of the previous days debates in the House of Lords, which is very interesting. Though one member of the House gave me something to mull over and hence this post. Another thing that we see regularly—I do not know whether it is an annual event—is the gay pride parade, which I and many others consider to be triumphalist and could be used to incite...
Dia Duit! Rinne mé dearmad ar Seachtain na Gaeilge atá ar suil an seachatin seo! Tá dhá bebo agus myspace amhain or an idirlion! SnaG – SeachtainNaGaeilge.bebo.com Ceol – SnaGCeol.bebo.com – www.myspace.com/snagceol An nuacht ar an maidin seo! Northern Ireland goes goes to the polls today in a very decisive election. (CNN, Breakingnews, RTÉ, BBC, France 24) The Polls are open until 10pm tonight with the counting begining tomorrow. 250 candidates are contesting 108 seats. The election is by...
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