Great Britain will be holding a House of Commons election sometime in the next 13 months. The recent scandal involving expenses for members of the House of Commons has damaged the Labour Party, the Conservative Party, and the Liberal Democratic Party, since all three parties have members of the House who used taxpayer funds improperly. According to at least one poll, 27% of British voters are thinking of voting for another party in the next election. See this story. One new party in Great Britain is the English Democrats Party, which believes that since Scotland has its own Parliament, there should be a Parliament just for England. Here is its webpage.
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Edited By Richard Winger
Will the UK Libertarian Party be running candidates?
U.K. House of Commons = the Mother of ALL EVIL indirect minority rule gerrymander regimes (from the DARK AGE in the 1200s).
Half (or less) of the votes in a bare majority of the gerrymander districts = about 25 (or less) percent minority rule.
Minority rule infected regimes from the U.K. — U.S.A., Canada, India, etc.
Result – EVIL arrogant party hack MONSTERS in 1 party safe seat gerrymander districts — result — EVIL scandals, etc.
P.R. NOW – to SAVE Real Democracy on Mother Earth.
Total Votes / Total Seats = EQUAL votes needed for each seat winner.
You can find links lists of all EU candidates by country under the “overview” section here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Parliament_election,_2009
The EU elects its parliament by proportional representation. There is a quiz here that should let you know “your position in the political landscape” by country and party:
http://www.euprofiler.eu/
How about letting Scotland be independent?
Green Party is well positioned in both Scotland, and UK.
There is no Uk Libertian Party. The SNP stands for an Independent Scotand. Although most MP’s are not elected with 50% of the vote to say that their seats are gerrymandered is to show your ignorance of British politics. Over here the seats are redrawn ever 10-15 years
by the Boundary Commission which is totally independent of any political party.
# 6 ALL single member district schemes are automatic gerrymanders.
P.R. NOW.
Saor Alba
Gerrymandering is deliberately drawn seat boundaries to the advatage of one particular party. This does not occur in Britain as we have very strict rules on how a seats boundaries can be drawn up.
1. Seats cannot pass over country boundaries. In other words you cannot have a seat that is partly in Wales and partly in England or partly on Scotland and partly in England.
2. Seats cannot pass over county boundaries. For example you cannot have a seat that is partly in Nottinghamshire and partly in Lincolnshire.
3. Seats cannot pass over London Borough boundaries. For example you cannot have a seat that is partly in Hackney and partly in Islington.
4. Seats as much as possible must be within a particular local government authority.
5. Seats must be made up of whole wards. They cannot be broken down to polling areas and split between seats.
6. The Boundary Commission is totally independent and will take represtations from both individual voters, community groups, M.P’s, councillors and constituency partys. Appeals can be made but the decision of the boundary commission is final. For example the parliamentary seat in which I live, Normanton is to be abolished at the next General Election even though my sitting M.P., Ed Balls is a Cabinet Minister.
Mark: Just ignore Demo Rep. He’s a fool who gives the same garbled nonsense, regardless of the issue. Israel had proportional representation and I don’t know anyone that considers that as a great model. It leads to governments cobbled together from multiple 1 and 2 member parties and makes coherent government extremely difficult.
#9, 10
ALL subareas (and their boundaries) of a regime are arbitrary — provinces, counties, cities, etc.
Another main problem is the parliament type regimes — having the same powermad freaks being both legislative and executive officers = 2/3 tyrants.
A plurality of the votes in a bare majority of the gerrymander districts = about 25 [or less] percent of the votes for the hacks of one party to control.
In parliamentary regimes the party hacks pick a de facto prime minister TYRANT. See the many de facto TYRANTS in the U.K., Canada, etc.
P.R. NOW.
A.V. NOW.
Separation of powers NOW.
Too much for the low grade political history MORONS on this list to understand — who can NOT detect the growing threat of a world TYRANT coming — who will make Hitler and Stalin look like little pre-school kids in a sandbox in a backyard.