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Why don't the Tories support electoral reform/PR?
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With PR the BNP would have 14 seats..."Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark TwainComment
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Originally posted by scooterscot View PostWith PR the BNP would have 14 seats...And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014Comment
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Originally posted by scooterscot View PostWith PR the BNP would have 14 seats...
I think both the Cons and Labs can safely offer the Libs a referrendum on PR because at the moment the mood of the public would be to overwhelmingly vote against it, fearing hung parliments and centre left coallitions for ever and a day.Will work inside IR35. Or for food.Comment
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Postyes, and 14 times as much influence as they have now. 14*0%=0%Comment
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Originally posted by VectraMan View Post
I think both the Cons and Labs can safely offer the Libs a referrendum on PR because at the moment the mood of the public would be to overwhelmingly vote against it, fearing hung parliments and centre left coallitions for ever and a day.
1. PR like the European parliaments
2. Preferential voting system like London Mayoral elections
3. FPTP
Then people would tend to vote against the first choice. It's not only fearing hung parliaments and coalitions its also the fact that people can't identify with their MP with PR.
Quite a few MPs this time got voted out on who they were rather than the party they stood for due to the expenses scandal.
Plus I spoke to some Tory activists in different parts of the SE who made it clear they wouldn't help in a PR system as a lot of the work they do is due to the type of person the particular candidate is."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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Originally posted by SueEllen View PostQuite a few MPs this time got voted out on who they were rather than the party they stood for due to the expenses scandal.Comment
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If you hold your cursor over PR, it changes to a question mark, and then a tip pops up saying "Page Ranking". I assume this is configurable.
As you were.Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostWhy is PR being underlined? Is this some forum feature?
This is a good thing in many contexts, as it improves the overall semantics of the document and has accessibility and SEO benefits. However, being a company that sells SEO software, the only acronyms they've pre-defined are "SEO" (Search Engine Optimisation) and "PR" (Page Ranking, derived from the name of one of Google's algorithms).
I'm in two minds about automatic acronym expansion: although it may well be that a post in Technical uses PR to mean PageRank, over here in General it's more likely to mean either Public Relations or Proportional Representation. As the algorithm is based on straightforward pattern-matching and replacement, there's no way it could determine from the context which to use (unlike SKA, CUK is not yet self-aware), so ultimately it fails in its goal of improving the semantics of the document by actually corrupting the meaning. It's also corrupted the URL for this thread
I reckon it should either be turned off, or some effort put into determining a set of commonly-used acronyms that are deserving of expansion and unlikely to be used to mean something else. Whether such effort is worthwhile is for admin to decide, methinks.Comment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View Post(unlike SKA, CUK is not yet self-aware)
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