Edinburgh's blog
AV for Referendums? Under no circumstances!!
Submitted by Edinburgh on Thu, 27/10/2011 - 22:52
AV (the Alternative Vote) should NEVER be used to decide among policy options offered in a referendum. Why not? Because the policy option that has the greatest overall support could well be rejected in an AV count.
'First past post' wrong system for Scotland
Submitted by Edinburgh on Fri, 24/06/2011 - 14:27'First past post' wrong system for Scotland
Platform opinion piece published in The Scotsman, 24 June 2011
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/opinion/James-Gilmour-39First-past-post3...
Pointless Primaries
Submitted by Edinburgh on Sun, 30/08/2009 - 23:06The Conservatives' "experiment" with a primary election in Totnes attracted a lot of media coverage. But the media don't seem to realise it was a very clever smokescreen.
Here's what I wrote in response to one major article. My piece was published on the Opinion page in The Scotsman on 26 August 2009.
Electoral accountability can't be enforced by first-past-the-post voting system
Submitted by Edinburgh on Sat, 27/06/2009 - 17:51(Lord) George Foulkes MSP (Labour) had a Platform Opinion piece in The Scotsman recently in which he claimed it was only by FPTP in single-member constituencies that we could hold our MPs to account.
Here's what I wrote in reply:
http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Electoral-accountability-can39t-be-e...
The discussion continues on the letters page of The Scotsman:
GF: http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Vote-for-stability.5408890.jp
JG: http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Stability-in-action.5412025.jp
PR voting and the BNP
Submitted by Edinburgh on Sat, 13/06/2009 - 21:06Newspaper commentators, bloggers around the world, and anti-PR campaigners of every hue have rushed into print with shock-horror stories claiming the success of the BNP in the recent elections to the European Parliament was all down to the PR voting system. "All would have been well if only we had used First-Past-The-Post".
