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There were two big reasons for spending a lot of money 1: bank collapse - partly due to deregulation, part due to world collapse. Tories would have done the same as Labour.not sure what UKIP would have done as they were a nonentity at the time 2 : military actions in Iraq. All parties...

Apparently there is an opt out clause already.

JBR , would you lose the link between MP and constituencies, ie people would no longer vote for the best person in their constituency? I think STV does this well but then you need more than one seat per constituency. Perhaps make the constituencies bigger but multi seat?

Not sure if this has been raised but whT implications are there if the vote in Scotkand is overwhemingly for staying 'in' and Engkand wants out?

I've never liked FPTP , it has always seemed a poor reflection on the votes cast. However, it's not just about sheer numbers of votes across the country when comparing it to PR. It depends on the make up of constituencies , their internal electorate as well. Which form of PR would be best?

Yes, it was a good system, and since then there has been a 'rush to the bottom' (with exceptions) with the proliferation of channels. Obviously the world of media has moved on, but I think your point on regional flavour is spot on. Hard to believe now that Channel 4 was such a radical idea !

These comes a point when it doesn't matter what mainstream system you use, the numbers return a majority.

How are you 'labelled' as anything in a secret ballot? He didn't get many votes because not many people wanted to vote for him. That's how it works!

Sweetly done 8)

Exactly...ranting on about 'personally' shooting people and so on. I think paranoia would be the initial diagnosis though.

Not that he was very far in it by the sound of it. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/robert-blay-ukip-suspends-parliamentary-5641537#ICID=sharebar_twitter

Interesting how the site censors the words P!55Chr15t but still allows the link to work. Well interesting to me....

Your actual P artist http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/de/****_Christ_by_Serrano_Andres_(1987).jpg

In the East End back in those days it was safe to go in the river , and swim, everyone looked after their own. It all changed though, when the Krayfish twins murdered Jack the Sprat McVitie.

They are rarely ahead ,so don't want the referee to blow it up.

Is it just above the mantle on a chimney breast? If so it may have been done to stop soot coming through rather than damp?

A lot of the comments here show why a woman might find it difficult to approach the builders to complain. Following on from the comment on the CSCS scheme , Let's be fair, is there really anyone around now that isn't aware that this is deemed unacceptable? If so ,then they should be...

A plasterers hod was a bigger one. You could get a barrow of gear in it.

We used to swim in rivers as kids. And they were probably more polluted then!

Used to be a great thing seeing the hoddies sliding three or four lifts down the ladder in their trainers!