Haven't written here for a while, not been busy so much but been watching elections, Debates (and Dr Who but that's for another entry after a couple more episodes). As things stand now we have a hung, or balanced if you prefer, parliament in the UK. And the Lib Dems are talking to the Conservative party, and twitter and others are going nuts. You voted this outcome, these are the consequences, deal with em. I don't want a Conservative Government, I don't trust David Cameron, I think with them you really don't want to get old, or be poor, or be ill but this is the hands we the voters have dealt the politicos, and they will do their deals and we will be left to watch what they do. And hope they don't screw it up to badly. I do not think a lib dem/conservative coalition has any mileage, the tories will not give proper Electoral reform and if the lib dems do a deal without it they will lose too much credibility. Equally much as I'd like it, I can't see a Lib Dem labour deal either, we are likely to have Minority Tory Government, for a while at least. Labour sold it soul in the 90's to get elected, and are now not the party of the people, just the nearest thing, we need to get rid of some of their dumber ideas (DEBill for one) and get back a peoples party, who represents us. Electoral Reform is a must, AV+ voting system as suggested by Jenkins report in 1990s, abolition of the house of Lords and a new system of government.
One thought I had on this was we have a scottish parliament, and Welsh Assembly. Get an English parliament sorted, make the Current British Parliament a senior (revising) chamber to all 3 with defence and some budget powers and everything else in the other parliaments. Whether that would work I have no idea, but it can't be worse then what we have. In any shake up, the place I live will lose it's direct MP as we become part of a bigger constituency, we must be one of the smallest in uk after all, but we must represent how people vote, and first past the post does not do that. Not anymore. Changing electoral boundaries as tories want, and labour did, is gerrymandering on a national scale, and does nothing to resolve the major issue. David Cameron says he wants to make all votes count the same. The right step for that is Proportional Representation, but I don't want Party lists as we'll just get clones coming in who will do as told. Top up lists are ok with some directly elected MPs, but we have to do something.
