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Whatever Happened to Traditional Conservatism?
Guest contributor Michael Merrick takes on the shibboleths of progressivism
"...beyond the trendies in Islington, metropolitan ethics is rather less popular, and it can alienate..."
AV It!
The Great Electoral Reform Debate Part Two: Director of Research at the Electoral Reform Society, Lewis Baston, with a withering piece directed at opponents of real electoral reform
"...Qvortrup points out that AV in Australia sometimes produces elections in which a party wins more votes but fewer seats than its main opponent. This is not an argument for keeping FPTP, whose track record in Britain on this is appalling. In three of the four close elections (margin of victory less than 2 percentage points) since 1918, the party with fewer votes won more seats (1929, 1951, February 1974). A system with a 75 per cent failure rate in testing conditions is unfit for purpose..."
