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Until we get Jim O'Neill to front it.

I did say to Labour in opposition that setting up a football regulator that means the government being responsible for who is allowed to run football clubs was going to get them into a terrible situation. This is a window into that.

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The best play is absolutely to keep Richard E in until the very last three then say "well - he's a traitor, obviously". Spend your time whittling down the field and then finding the other traitors first. #thetraitors.

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Social Democrats could peel away from Labour (and the Lib Dems).

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I also like the idea that "nationalists" can be left wing. I mean they are literally nationalists, whatever their social policy.

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Same. No way I'd want the Greens anywhere near power.

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I "love" that you are putting LD voters down as left wing.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion... I mean look at those polls in the run up to 1983. That doesn't scream to me that a PR result would end in anything other than a right wing government.

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Whut? Have you seen the polls e.g. recently.

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"Maybe" the voting system wouldn't actually change that much as it just forms the coalitions outside of the two main parties that end up replicating in office the governments of the two main parties.

Whereas PR will, most likely in the UK, ensure a right/centre right majority in perpetuity. Maybe some left wing group gets some odd balance of power at some point and uses it for some fringe fancy.

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Referendums can be binding. that Brexit was an advisory referendum was a choice.

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It's not an abrogation of responsibility it's a fundamental principle. Voters have to make the decision on how governments are elected. And manifesto isn't an answer.

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I think Reform are in favour no?

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Not least because we don't have a constitution and the law can be changed. But yes, as a matter of basic principle it's got to be a referendum. Anything else is trying to sneak it in.

It's one of the things that absolutely has to be put to a referendum. Politicians don't get to decide how we elect them, that's for us.

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It was First Past the Post v not First Past the Post. People voted overwhelmingly for the status quo without caring what the alternative was. That's not to say they will again, but at the time there was little support for PR in a) the major parties and b) the Trade Unions. That's changed.

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Still love the idea that the voters opposed AV because they were holding out for d'hondt.

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Maybe the first thing they have to do is pick a third? #TheTraitors

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I think he did, that's him making an effort.

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A memory reminder popped up today for this moment from a Scritti Politti gog in 2021. Happy birthday @rhodri.biz

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Also the boundaries of continental Europe have been in flux for centuries and that must make some psychological difference.

It has to think harder about entitlements and ID cards. Benefits/health etc. and residential/contributary qualification

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Ian Moss @ian.allenmoss.co.uk · 30/09/2026

Free movement is wildly unpopular. I always find the "you can live and work abroad" argument hilariously narrow in its demograpgic appeal. My schoolmates in Stoke were not going to move out of Stoke, never mind to Croatia.

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When I was in MoJ newspaper and blogging sites were locked down. I asked for access to newspapers and to the "prisoner blog" and was asked why I needed it. They couldn't do this, they could only switch the filter "on" or "off". I ended up being the only person in MoJ with the filter set to "off".

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Ian Moss @ian.allenmoss.co.uk · 30/09/2026

You do actually want policy officials reading about policy, not just press officers.

Ian Moss @ian.allenmoss.co.uk · 30/09/2026

Very much not. It’s completely different. In STV votes also transfer as fractions from those candidates above the quota. It only transfers as a whole vote from someone that is eliminated. AV only has whole votes from eliminated candidates until someone has 50% remaining valid votes.

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I ‘definitely’ laid nerd seed with that comment

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If we are going to have a nerdy discussion about PR models I have to say my usual ‘STV has to have multi member seats by definition, otherwise it’s not STV, it’s AV’

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Strong disagree on electoral reform. It’s the voters right to choose how they elect their leaders

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Labour doesn’t get into power very often - so it needs to just get on with stuff. I think that’s where Andy’s head is.

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By god it’s good to listen to someone in politics who actually has thought about some stuff and said it. Sure, as he said, we can disagree about some conclusions but he’s saying it because that’s the conclusion ‘he’ has reached.

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A number 0.0003 transfer on every high street

That forward policy on pension rises - a double lock if you will - is the right answer and perfectly generous.

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Or as the great Sir John Kingman once put it to me ‘choose your predecessor wisely’

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