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Recent content by OwenM

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    Mazda's Maps and Mwikiboxes

    It is also effectively the system used (to some extent) in the intra-party bit of panachage open-list PR, as in Switzerland or Luxembourg (perhaps that's what they should have switched to). I think Eurovision may have experimented with it at some point too.
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    Alternatives to nation-states?

    Switzerland nonetheless having very exclusive citizenship laws by modern standards that are primarily jus sanguinis
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    Alternatives to nation-states?

    Ethiopia from 1991 to 2020 (and still, on paper, but that does seem more Soviet) would perhaps be another example (in part I think because you at least in some ways basically have the imperial state overthrown altogether by a revolt primarily from outside the metropole that nonetheless wants to...
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    Caribbean Cold War: Stoking a Race War

    The bit of Cold War politics where the CIA basically ended up propping up a communist regime is fun, the details.... less so, though obviously still interesting
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    From memory the diary of one of his inner circle (I can't remember who offhand) days before he becomes Chancellor is basically going "it's all over, the party's bankrupt, the hammer is going to come down in the next few weeks"
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    This forum may be closing down in March 2025

    I appreciate I think this is only recently a non-hypothetical situation for you too, but for those of us who are in MPs' local parties do you think it's also worth raising at January local party meetings even if having gotten a written response by then?
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    This forum may be closing down in March 2025

    I assume btw that this will affect vote-uk and other proboards?
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    This forum may be closing down in March 2025

    Yes, it's extraterritorial
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    This forum may be closing down in March 2025

    I think Labour List is probably fine on the only user generation being replies count? Maybe?
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    The Redcliffe-Maud plan for local government

    Surely that's what the Ainsty was under the "too traditional for the Traditional Counties people" setup?
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    The Redcliffe-Maud plan for local government

    Although by that same token you didn't get the same objection to being told you were now in South Yorkshire rather than West Riding as to most county changes even outside Yorkshire I think (and I do suspect for the reason of "well, still Yorkshire")
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    Vallags-ympning

    I think that's more often "resisting annexation" than actual secession though the latter isn't unknown (and sometimes cities not wanting to annex specific bits, though usually not meaning suburbs in that sense).
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    The Redcliffe-Maud plan for local government

    To bring in something I mentioned in PMQs, one thing that would be different if adopted in full is that IIRC Redcliffe-Maud did support the urban districts and boroughs he wanted to abolish getting their own parish councils, which whilst obviously not helping with the county level changes I...
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    Vallags-ympning

    Are you suggesting we undermine the secret ballot?! The former, IIRC, which was obviously notably ineffective.
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    Vallags-ympning

    Am I right in thinking Plaid and the Greens would have lost out under the pre-2018 rules?
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