John Cleese explains Proportional Representation in a promo for the SDP/Liberal Alliance in the 1983 campaign. Thanks to CC for the pointer.
You may not be “involved” (now now, that’s a lazy argument innit?) but it’s intellectually educational – whatever that may mean (yawn).
“Compromise is not a dirty word.” Bipartisanism is.
Interesting:
A Constitutional discussion for proportional representation for the island of Saint Lucia (former British Colony).
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appologies if i keep firing off at a terrible tangent. But …
be it greece with its navy to counter the turkish ‘threat’ or an olympics parade that feeds the ego, or a portugal in post-empire depression, or a football team chaseing glory…it is now no longer the economystupid but debtlevelsservicigstupid being the toxic waste of human nature…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/8664833.stm
Now which conservative/labour/liberal cobination can reign in the dispensers of debt? That is the question i believe. And love them or whatever, only the conservatives have zoomed in on the key issue…