Why don't the Tories support electoral reform/PR?

[d000hg]

Common lookups would be useful in business/accounting/technical forums. As a trite example, HMRC and IR35. Can you get content packs for technical terms like USB/ADSL?
Does the forum allow it to have different content in different boards.. then in general SKA could be included or other user-nominated CUK insider terms.

[NickFitz]

Common lookups would be useful in business/accounting/technical forums. As a trite example, HMRC and IR35. Can you get content packs for technical terms like USB/ADSL?
Does the forum allow it to have different content in different boards.. then in general SKA could be included or other user-nominated CUK insider terms.

It seems it's a global thing that can't be applied differently to different forums

Not sure what the expansion of IR35 would be - "Eye Are Thirty-Five" perhaps?

I agree that it could have some value if applied correctly, but it will take some time to come up with a suitable list.

Also, it does the acronym expansion on every occurrence - best practise is only to do it on the first occurrence per page, but that isn't configurable and there's little point hacking third-party code when it'll just be de-hacked on the next security update.

[The Wikir Man]

Plus Sinn Fein may hold the balance....

Sinn Fein have already said that they refuse to take their seats in the House of Commons. Ulster Unionists held the balance of power from December 1996 to the 1997 election after Major lost his majority.

If the UK had a proportional representation system, then there would be a greater chance of coalition governments rather than the mess we're going through at the moment - mainly because the parties would know what to expect and know that they would need to compromise. Cameron went into the campaign still expecting a clear and decisive victory, so had no need to consider a compromise (until he actually needed to compromise).

[The Wikir Man]

With PR the BNP would have 14 seats...

1.9% of the vote => 12.35 seats.

Whether you agree with the politics, the way forward to to educate and persuade people rather than to ignore their views. You only have to see what happens to BNP councillors after one term - once the people that voted for them realize what they are actually like, they turn their backs on them. Plus, they wouldn't be able to claim that they were being ignored by the fundamentally racist FPTP system that we have in place...

To be honest, the fact that UKIP would have 20 seats I find more disturbing.

[Doggy Styles]

If the UK had a proportional representation system, then there would be a greater chance of coalition governments rather than the mess we're going through at the moment - mainly because the parties would know what to expect and know that they would need to compromise. Cameron went into the campaign still expecting a clear and decisive victory, so had no need to consider a compromise (until he actually needed to compromise).

If this is a mess, we'd get a mess every election. It's what all countries with PR go through.

Cameron was talking to the Lib Dems weeks before polling day, as soon as Clegg did well in the first debate.

[The Wikir Man]

Cameron was talking to the Lib Dems weeks before polling day, as soon as Clegg did well in the first debate.

Linky?