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February 21, 2006
Untitled posts are just not the done thing, however apt they may be
Ideas are something of a strange concept this morning. I did wonder for a while if one could use the Abolition of Parliament Bill (as all the cool kids are now calling it) to get electoral reform through on the sly (slip a few quid to a minister, and hey presto—a new electoral system!). But I realised that without a pointlessly long dreamy bit of chat about what we could all do once the objective had been achieved, it would either be too short or too silly to bother with.
I also wondered about sharing some of the fascinating* research I've done about voting system theory (Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem anyone?), but that was not nearly silly enough. Then there was Malta, land of the unbridled STV. It works rather well, so I'm told, and there are a couple of interesting twists to it. But that could take a while, because it kind of deserves to be done properly.
So, in the meantime, get stuck in to the civil liberties thing, for these moments of actual importance don't come around too often in the crazy vicissitudinary world in which we crawl about (central topic excluded, of course).
*note: not actually fascinating
Posted by pauldavies on February 21, 2006
