In May, there will be a referendum on the Alternative Vote system for picking Members of Parliament at the next election in 2015. This was the price the Liberal Democrats required to join a Coalition government with the Conservatives. Conservatives are virtually unanimously in favor of a NO vote, LibDems (of course) for a YES vote.
Today 114 of 253 Labour MPs are publicly supporting No on AV. Leading the campaign will be William Hague, John Prescott, Ken Clarke, Margaret Beckett, David Blunkett, Baroness Warsi, John Reid, and Lord Falconer. The big GMB union is also pleading substantial funding for the NO campaign.
If the voters of England can be coaxed out to vote, AV CAN be defeated! I wonder what the LibDems will do then . .
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Friday, December 24, 2010
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Cuts and Thugs
The so-called student demonstations against the UK Coalition government's changes to Higher Education funding were doubtless only the first of many, as the public sector union bosses have promised others next year. This is all quite predictable, although the police must adopt a priori a more active and forceful policy toward controlling them. Banning marches in built up areas of London would be a good first step. Representative democracy must ALWAYS prevail over Leftist violence in the streets.
As a Conservative, the partial demise of the Lib Dems at the next Parliamentary election in 2015 would just be an added bonus! The coalition has been - and will doubtless continue to be - very useful to the Conservative Party after just failing to win a majority in 2010, but gaining that majority in 2015 and governing alone must be the ultimate aim. The defeat of the Alternative Voting system in next May's referendum will be a very good start. The reduction in the size of the House of Commons to 600 and the redrawing of all the Constituency boundaries before 2015 should considerably benefit the Conservatives, so gaining a healthy majority should be well within reach - especially if the economny has recovered well by then. But between now and then, there are interesting times ahead.
As a Conservative, the partial demise of the Lib Dems at the next Parliamentary election in 2015 would just be an added bonus! The coalition has been - and will doubtless continue to be - very useful to the Conservative Party after just failing to win a majority in 2010, but gaining that majority in 2015 and governing alone must be the ultimate aim. The defeat of the Alternative Voting system in next May's referendum will be a very good start. The reduction in the size of the House of Commons to 600 and the redrawing of all the Constituency boundaries before 2015 should considerably benefit the Conservatives, so gaining a healthy majority should be well within reach - especially if the economny has recovered well by then. But between now and then, there are interesting times ahead.
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