It’s been difficult to blog about this, as, well, this is ongoing and changing hourly. The Liberal Democrats commenced negotiations with the Conservative Party out of respect for the Tories having the largest number of seats in the new Parliament, to remain consistent with their own campaign pledge to first negotiate with the largest party […]
Tag: 2010 British Election
Then the time is now to stop pussyfooting around with the Tories, and do this, FFS. The SNP and Plaid Cymru are open to a progressive coalition? Do it, Nick. If you think that David Cameron is g
I board the first of two flights on a PDX-AMS-BRS itinerary in 90 60 minutes (which means I am safely ensconced in an airport bar). I am missing election day, which suits me fine, because in this el
to use the new nomenclature, offers a real chance for electoral reform in the UK: specifically, ditching the SMD / Plurality system in place that offers the country a government with an overwhelming majority of seats that 65% of those voting chose explicitly against, or even after Thursday a Tory minority government drawing on a […]
The Guardian endorses the Liberal Democrats. While endorsements do not have the power that The Sun believes, they can affect outcomes at the margins. In my own work, endorsements have been shown t
Following five days in Chicago “working” at my day job, and then a couple days on the Oregon coast celebrating my birthday with my fiancée, it’s time to get back to serious business
Short answer: unlikely. I’ve been contemplating an approach to the sudden rise of the Liberal Democrats while busy trying to consider helping finish this paper I’m scheduled to present in Chicago Saturday morning. I also picked the precise wrong month to leave the new constituency handbook published by our very own Elections Centre at the […]
Perhaps. I was unaware of this trio prior to reading about them over at UK Polling Report, which is odd as I’ve been reading The Times‘ soccer (football) coverage for the past ten years.
As the election has now been called, expect a lot of such breathless pieces describing the fact that the British “electoral system” could produce a result where one party receives a plural
A poorly kept secret: tomorrow morning Gordon Brown will go to the Queen and do that thing he has to do in order to dissolve Parliament and have an election. Every general election since 1997 has been held simultaneous with local elections, this year was widely assumed to be no different, that day is 6 […]
1. Poetic justice. Shorter: states that had tight-fisted approaches to health care in general and medicaid in particular are worried about the burden imposed by the health care reform law. Longer: &
Can be found here. In short, it looks to be successful. Longer, the BPIX poll that was released yesterday is being touted as having a large enough sample size to say something about the marginals that