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date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:41:15 -0500,
group: uk.politics.electoral
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Re: Referendum on electoral reform
In article <8lhym.2602$Xz6.1673@newsfe18.ams2>, guy.barry@blueyonder.co.uk
(Guy Barry) wrote:
> wrote in message
> news:DKmdnYhH3O8-A1TXnZ2dnUVZ8s2dnZ2d@giganews.com...
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> > If a small minority can't gather enough or wider support to win such a
> > seat, why should they be represented in an assembly? It is about
> > governance not simple arithmetic, after all.
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> That sounds like an argument in favour of the status quo.
The status quo doesn't even provide a link between parties' votes and
seats. The second party in Cambridge City in June, in terms of votes, got
no seats, for example.
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Cllr. Colin Rosenstiel
Cambridge http://www.rosenstiel.co.uk/
Cambridge Liberal Democrats: http://www.cambridgelibdems.org.uk/
date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:41:15 -0500
author: unknown
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Re: Referendum on electoral reform
rosenstiel@cix.compulink.co.uk wrote:
> In article <8lhym.2602$Xz6.1673@newsfe18.ams2>, guy.barry@blueyonder.co.uk
> (Guy Barry) wrote:
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>> wrote in message
>> news:DKmdnYhH3O8-A1TXnZ2dnUVZ8s2dnZ2d@giganews.com...
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>>> If a small minority can't gather enough or wider support to win such a
>>> seat, why should they be represented in an assembly? It is about
>>> governance not simple arithmetic, after all.
>> That sounds like an argument in favour of the status quo.
>
> The status quo doesn't even provide a link between parties' votes and
> seats.
Of course it does.
> The second party in Cambridge City in June, in terms of votes, got
> no seats, for example.
Then they need to get more votes.
date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:17:22 +0100
author: JNugent
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