Intersting and thoughtful comments :thumbsup:
1. If the rest of Europe does it we should we not do it? This is an interesting argument. The rebuttal may be 'but we are not like the rest of Europe, which is why we left the EU'. As a strong remainer I would be conflicted by this reasoning, were...
My point was that if you tried to interpret the graph(s) by interpolating between the start and the end in order to illustrate a steady decline, you would fail.
I wrote that as a reply to the suggestion there has been a steady decline in voter turnout over the decades.
There clearly is not a...
New old labour may be annoying and dull (they are) but they have a long way to fall before anyone is going to launch an in-depth analysis of the shower in opposition.
The Tories still look like the mad lot who advocated sniffing bleach while wearing a paper bag over the head to cure Covid 3...
Reading numerous chaps trying to work out what the club does, how they do it, what is generally happening, and whether they 'approve' of it is like watching a cat playing with a Rubic cube.
You have no idea what it is, what it does, or how it works, so just sit back and enjoy it. You may sniff...
Well, we will have a squad, we will have some players on loan, we will sell some players, we will buy some players.
This is what football clubs do. The smart ones operate this in their favour.
The minute I start worrying is when the club start saying they were 'forced' to do this or that...
Good point.
How much of the shockingly low 6 million tory turnout in the last GE was due to a fundamentally racist proportion of their support opting to back the white man (Farage)?
As nobody admits to being racist any more, we shall probably never know.
That isn't what I am saying at all. The superiority of FPTP is that it keeps the extremists out.
The point of the graph is to show that democracy is not in steady decline. There are blips in turnout but even turnout is not necessarily a good measure of the health of a society.
When I lived in...
A man of action, willing to put the good of the country above the law*.
"Politician Tony Benn records in his diary (17 February 1981) that a journalist from the New Statesman, Duncan Campbell, told him that he had received information two years previously, from an intelligence agent, that Neave...
Potty has given you a thumbs up for that.
Presumably he's fully buckled in on the Badenoc bus, or Jenrick jalopy, heading for the harbour of victory and preparing to steam fully ahead on a boat to nowhere, while demanding a general election every time Starmer annoys or disappoints someone.
The...