On 30/04/2010 20:03, Michael Benjamin wrote:
We do and it is a bloody disaster Don't touch it. The three main drawbacks are: 1. The candidate alegiance is to the list. And the apparatus. Not to the constituency. 2. Any nut case cause can get in. So there are a lot of causes and no overall agenda. 3. On forming a government the balance of power is held by frlinge lunatics.
Couldn't agree more. here in Scotland there are people in Holyrood who would never get elected by a majority but who constantly get in by the back door. They don't give a twopenny toss for the constituency and they can't shut the f*ck up about their own pet hobby horses. Imagine, Rob Gibson MSP (only ever elected via the list) made his maiden speach in Holyrood about Scottish people who had become cowboys (guess hwo had just written a book about the very subject).
To find a nutcase look up David Thompson and his mismatched views on homosexuality and the church
And to find fringe manipulation look at the way that the greens have turned themselves inside out over transport (particularly in the edinburgh area)
Strong government with an agenda backed by a majority of the people is the not norm where you have a system which throws up people like this. Some thing the people of England are more than likely to witness when we get the inevitable hung parliament (it's not a balanced parliament that's just politico babble to avoid the image of a large black horse in city square)
Betty PS Charlton haven't a cat in Hells chance we will stuff 'em. _______________________________________________ the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. Leedslist mailing list [email protected] http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist and the hardest time in a sailor's day is to watch the sun as it sails away
