Re: LibDem leadership election
Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:00:51 -0700
On 1 Nov, 20:49, "Tim Roll-Pickering" <T.C.Roll-Picker...@qmul.ac.uk>
wrote:
> JohnLoony wrote:
> >> As we have argued on many occasions, I am not a Tory.
> >> And I do have problems with my own party's leadership election system and
> >> the limited choice that members get.
> > Which party are you in?
>
> The ...
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Re: LibDem leadership election
Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:41:06 -0700
On 31 Oct, 20:28, "Tim Roll-Pickering" <T.C.Roll-Picker...@qmul.ac.uk>
wrote:
> As we have argued on many occasions, I am not a Tory.
>
> And I do have problems with my own party's leadership election system and
> the limited choice that members get.
Which party are you in?
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Re: LibDem leadership election
Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:01:41 -0700
Matthew Huntbach <m...@dcs.qmul.ac.uk> wrote
> I notice the issue of OMOV and who actually votes has been addressed recently
> by Simon Titley:
>
> http://www.libdemvoice.org/opinion-who-decides-1554.html
>
> who estimates that even taking into account the fact that armchair members
> are less likely to vote th ...
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Re: LibDem leadership election
Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:10 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
In article <5or8psFo7cqnU1@mid.individual.net>,
T.C.Roll-Pickering@qmul.ac.uk (Tim Roll-Pickering) wrote:
> Matthew Huntbach wrote:
>
> > But I don't think anyone's seriously calling for a change from OMOV.
>
> Although the ballot access isn't exactly OMOV - why do candidates
> need the support of 7 of a c ...
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Re: LibDem leadership election
Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:36:10 +0000
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, usenet@bondegezou.demon.co.uk wrote:
> On Oct 31, 9:11 am, Matthew Huntbach <m...@dcs.qmul.ac.uk> wrote:
>> There is a problem in that there tends to be a larger passive membership in the
>> more prosperous rural/suburban parts than in the urban parts, so the
>> membership is not fully repre ...
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Clegg Vows to Defy ID Cards Law
Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:35 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/libdems/story/0,,2202171,00.html
Nick Clegg, the odds-on favourite to become Liberal Democrat
leader, yesterday announced that he will break the law and refuse to
provide details of his identity if the government presses ahead with
plans
to make ID cards compulsory.
...
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Re: LibDem leadership election
Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:59:27 -0700
On Oct 31, 9:11 am, Matthew Huntbach <m...@dcs.qmul.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Steve Cooper wrote: [...]
> > In the LibDems case this is not as big a problem. Their leadership has
> > generally been less centralist and their general membership is more middle of
> > the road, and more representative of t ...
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Re: LibDem leadership election
Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:11:25 +0000
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Steve Cooper wrote:
> Tim Roll-Pickering wrote:
>> Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
>>>> Assuming that most Lib Dem members have never met either of the two
>>>> candidates, and (like me) only know about them through the mainstream
>>>> media, am I right in assuming that very many people don't know ...
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Parliamentary Democracy is a Fraud. DON'T VOTE
Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:13:01 -0700
SAY NO TO THE SYSTEM
By Colin Jordan
GENERAL ELECTION
PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY IS A FRAUD: a confidence trick. It is not
government genuinely representative of the people and expressive of
their will.
One fact suffices to prove this, although there is other proof galore.
The great majority of the British p ...
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Re: LibDem leadership election
Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:45 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
In article <1193707895.903343.173400@o80g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
john.loony@tiscali.co.uk (JohnLoony) wrote:
> Assuming that most Lib Dem members have never met either of the two
> candidates, and (like me) only know about them through the mainstream
> media, am I right in assuming that very many people don't ...
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