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• Pending Fun from British Elections? (Part II)

  
  PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts — Authority: 141
  I forgot to mention in my previous post on the pending British elections that another aspect of potential fun out the of those elections is increased talk of electoral reform in the UK.  Along those lines is a piece from the Telegraph :  Jack Straw: new House of Lords to be elected by proportional ...
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• UNDP Consultant Advocates Some Proportional Representation in Nigeria

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 453
  As Nigerian legislators are working to review and amend the Nigerian 1999 constitution, a UNDP consultant, Professor Sam Egwu, has advocated the inclusion of proportional representation in the constitution to cater for special interests of minorities, women and the disabled. Delivering a paper, entitled ...
  2 days ago

• Nick Clegg dents Labour hopes of Lib-Lab alliance

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • Lib Dem leader likely to back most votes, not seats • Narrowing Tory poll lead hints at hung parliament The Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, suggested today he would be unlikely to prop up Labour should the general election result in a hung parliament, setting back the likelihood of a Lib-Lab alliance if ...
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• Senate pledges good treatment for Uwais’ report – Vanguard

  
  Nigerian Bulletin! — Authority: 152
  The Senate will consider seriously some recommendations of the Justice Mohammed Uwais-led Electoral Reform Committee (ERC), the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, said yesterday.Senator Ekweremadu, in an interactive session with the Network of NGOs in the country, however, affirmed that the ...
  6 days ago

• Queen’s seven-minute speech has UK opposition pasting Brown government

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  London, Nov.19 (ANI): The Gordon Brown Government has been accused of desperate electioneering after Queen Elizabeth delivered the briefest of speeches, lasting seven minutes on the achievements of Labour since it came to power 12 years ago.Brown was said to have squandered the chance to clean up Parliament with ...
  6 days ago

• Pointing in the right direction for electoral success

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Welcome though the prime ministers promise of a manifesto commitment to a referendum on the voting system might be, it will do little to persuade electors that Labour is serious about change. The Guardian is right to argue that Labour should act while it has the opportunity to do so ( Editorial , 14 November). ...
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• Ve haff vays of making you enrol

  
  The Poll Bludger — Authority: 489
  Bernard Keane of Crikey says nein danke to automatic enrolment plot: This is about finding new ways to enforce a law that can’t be enforced effectively at the moment. But if you listen to Rees, you’d think it was for The Kids. Rees pointedly referred to the Board of Studies as one of the agencies that would be ...
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• Electoral reform: Change or decay

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 162
  The government is running out of time. There are, it is estimated, 40 legislating days between the Queens speech on Wednesday and the general election next May. The address from the throne could seal its fate, if it chooses to stick to the draft legislative programme and hunker down to protect its achievements. ...
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• Spot the problem?

  
  Not a sheep — Authority: 150
  "You’d never get through a bill on electoral reform before a general election. No-one in their right mind would think that you could." According to Iain Dale those are the words of Margaret Beckett. Now I am no fan of the dismal Ms Beckett but she quite correct in this instance. The only problem is that the man in ...
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• The Jedward factor

  
  Next Left — Authority: 649
  The Jedwardisation of political debate continues apace. And the Labour party must have been secretly relieved when Simon Cowell sent the X-Factor run-off into deadlock last week, allowing the public to save the tone deaf Jedward twins. The Mirror reports a new online advertising campaign portraying the boys George ...
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• David Mark is confused – Soyinka – I will reply him appropriately – Senate President – Tribune

  
  Nigerian Bulletin! — Authority: 152
  Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, on Thursday, carpeted the Senate President, David Mark, over his comments to the effect that the removal of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Professor Maurice Iwu, would not solve the country’s electoral problem.Africa’s first Nobel Laureate in ...
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• Tessa Jowell makes last-ditch push for electoral reform in Queens speech

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • Minister also wants votes at 16 in wider package • Referendum would boost Labour, say pollsters Tessa Jowell was among a number of cabinet ministers who today mounted a last-ditch effort to include a referendum on electoral reform in the Queens speech next week. She saw the reform as part of a wider package ...
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• Interviews and roundabouts

  
  COUNCILLOR ANDREW BURNS' REALLY BAD BLOG — Authority: 129
  Spent the day over in Glasgow, helping with interviews for the Electoral Reform Society Scotland office ... very good calibre of candidates for the vacant post in question. Back to Edinburgh late afternoon for local surgery and Tollcross Community Council meeting this evening - quite a bit of debate about ...
  2 weeks ago

• No electoral reform bill in Queens speech, says Downing Street

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  This months Queens speech will not contain a bill to introduce reform of the voting system, Downing Street sources confirmed today. The package of measures will grant NHS patients new legal rights to maximum waiting times for elective surgery and urgent cancer referrals. Electoral reformers thought they had won ...
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• Mark Valladares takes the "Open Up" campaign to task

  
  LibDemBlogs — Authority: 176
  There is an excellent post by Mark Valladares on Liberal Bureaucracy today where he rips into the "Open Up" campaign which is trying to force all parties at have open primaries. Mark nails the campaign for the distraction from real reform it is: Im afraid that this looks like a plot to remove smaller political ...
  2 weeks ago

• John Major calls for ministers to be cut by one third

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 973
  Sir John Major the former prime minister has called for the number of Government ministers to be slashed by as much as onethird.
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• Major urges reduction in ministers

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Former Conservative prime minister says payroll vote is too dominant and calls for slimmed-down Commons The former prime minister Sir John Major has called for the number of government ministers to be reduced by up to a third in order to end the dominance of parliament by the "payroll vote". Major said he was ...
  2 weeks ago

• My Take On The By-Elections

  
  They Call Me "Mr. Sinister" — Authority: 474
  Harper won two more rural seats and so two more votes against the long gun registry and for money transfers from the cities to the country (Yippee). The Tories are still going nowhere fast in the cities, but who gives a shit about them? They are milch cows, nothing more. The big story, as far as I am concerned is ...
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• Newspoll: ??-??

  
  The Poll Bludger — Authority: 489
  Following last week’s surprising and almost certainly rogue Newspoll result, The Australian sent its pollster out into the field again over the weekend for an eagerly anticipated follow-up survey. However, when the results were published yesterday, all that was offered was attitudinal results on asylum seekers – ...
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• Politics drift beyond satire | John Lloyd

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 162
  Our democracy hangs by a thread. One way to claw back some respect is to insist on open primaries We have a long tradition of satire in Britain: for most of us, political parties and politicians have always been a bit of a joke. But until recently the gags have been gentle – along the lines of "theyre not much use ...
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