The message of the adverts will be: "Nick Clegg, don't sell out on PR – fair votes now!
posted by Julie Oakley at Sunday, May 09, 2010
This is a place where I regularly post personal artwork, good, bad or indifferent.
The characters that crop up regularly in this blog are husband – Robin, eldest teenager and only daughter – Flo, next teenager and eldest son – Tom, teenager second son – Hugo, five year old third son – Xavier, and red Staffordshire Bull Terrier – Rufus.
I'll try to reply wherever you comment but if I don't it's only because I'm overwhelmed with running a family and earning a living.
My two eldest have started a business venture selling artwork (mainly my paintings) to raise money for university. Please visit their site, Oakley Gallery to see what they are selling now.
If you want to buy prints of anything you see here or have any requests please send an email to flo at oakleygallery dot com
© Julie Oakley 2008
2 Comments:
Yes, i think the British voting system is very unfair but I'm not sure about proportional as you get so many minor parties getting seats and then government is/can be? unstable. I like our preferential system where the votes that have gone to the least favoured candidate are resorted into each voters next preference - and then the next least preferred candidate's votes are resorted...until everyone's votes are in one of two heaps and then the one with the most wins - so all votes do count - except, of course, in 'safe' seats where too many votes are 'used' to elect someone who would be elected anyway. I also think compulsory voting is good.
Mmm - '38 degrees' sounds like our 'Get Up' which has been very successful - it has more online members than all the other political parties put together and regularly solicits opinion in relation to specific issues in order to be proactive or responsive in the political arena. It also facilitates local area get togethers, providing discussion notes and collating feedback - all very interesting - the internet has hugely improved democracy, I think.
I think you're probably right – a modified proportional system may be the answer or your system. What we have is so blatantly unfair. All those years of pain under a Thatcher government voted in by a minority of the electorate - I don't think I have the energy to put up with that again!
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