Our 'What Happens when no-one wins' event has just started #ELECTION2015 pic.twitter.com/vY1rFwkBx1
— British Academy (@britac_news) April 29, 2015
What happens when no one wins? Event kicking off #GE15 #GE2015 @paddy_o_c @britac_news @cath_haddon pic.twitter.com/CWXrkgJ5oN
— Jamiesha (@Jamiesha_Maj) April 29, 2015
Sat next to Cameron's former Uni tutor Vernon Bogdanor at a @britac_news event on 'What Happens When No-one Wins' the #GE2015. Amazing. #fb
— Peter Ruddick (@ruddick) April 29, 2015
What happens when no one wins? Hearing about past elections where large nationalist blocs led to minority governments-Parnell? @britac_news
— Natasha McCarthy (@ntshmccrthy) April 29, 2015
Iain Mcclean on comparison between Irish bloc in 1880s and SNP this year: Salmond has about 10% of the ruthlessness of Parnell! @britac_news
— Thomas Kohut (@ThomasKohut) April 29, 2015
Peter Hennessy FBA @QMUL_HSS on history of elections at our #ELECTION2015 event 'what happens when no-one wins?' pic.twitter.com/9lnGtZ2l2b
— British Academy (@britac_news) April 29, 2015
Peter Hennessy describes 'human factors' in coalition politics - Jim Callaghan wearied by constant deal-making to get support @britac_news
— Natasha McCarthy (@ntshmccrthy) April 29, 2015
Catherine Haddon @instituteforgov comparing this election to the last one: 'this time we have a wider discussion of constitutional issues'
— British Academy (@britac_news) April 29, 2015
At @britac_news British academy tackling unanswerable questions - eg how potential PM can show 'likely command confidence of House'.
— Katie Ghose (@katieghose) April 29, 2015
What happens when no one wins? @cath_haddon discussing the Fixed Term Parliaments Act @britac_news #GE15 #GE2015 pic.twitter.com/ttIXA9KY71
— Jamiesha (@Jamiesha_Maj) April 29, 2015
Catherine Haddon: history tells us that politics and legitimacy will probably trump law @britac_news
— Thomas Kohut (@ThomasKohut) April 29, 2015
.@cath_haddon : we don't know what will happen this time but politics and legitimacy likely to be more important than law #ELECTION2015
— British Academy (@britac_news) April 29, 2015
Fixed term parliaments are brand new and weren't designed to shape govt formation when no majority! @britac_news
— Katie Ghose (@katieghose) April 29, 2015
David Butler: new election soon after an indecisive vote unlikely - too much work and too much money for all parties @britac_news
— Natasha McCarthy (@ntshmccrthy) April 29, 2015
Elections guru David Butler predicts substantial 'eating of red lines' when realpolitik kicks in post May 7th @britac_news @electoralreform
— Katie Ghose (@katieghose) April 29, 2015
@katieghose @britac_news @electoralreform @ntfem
Those Red Lines will melt away like snow in the winter sun 🌕
— Mr Frog (@laquamariner) April 29, 2015
@humour42 @britac_news @cath_haddon @paddy_o_c http://t.co/WTlhJr7EAp Are we really sure this system is the best system?
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 29, 2015
I thought Paddy O'Donnell was surprisingly bossy, and much more attractive than I imagined him to be. https://t.co/D3bCCnGEXd
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 29, 2015
The public would be puzzled then angry at the unnecessary complexity of the business of government. https://t.co/D3bCCnGEXd
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 29, 2015
It seems the pundits enjoyed complexity for its own sake, because just talking about it allowed them to show off. https://t.co/D3bCCnGEXd
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 29, 2015
Peter Hennessy said the establishment has good chaps capable of pulling out a rabbit at the 59th minute of 11th hour https://t.co/D3bCCnGEXd
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 29, 2015
This is something I know that he likes to say and I find his complacency infuriating. There will come a time when our luck runs out and lenders stop lending to us because they know we are being run by clueless lunatics or the unbelievably complacent.
http://www.civilserviceworld.com/articles/interview/people-need-be-ready-longer-coalition-talks-peter-hennessy-interviews-former
I just want to feel well-governed. Listening to Prime Minister's Question Time is not hearing the clamorous voices of liberty, as Peter Hennessy says, but seeing that those who are supposed to be governing you wasting their time and energy putting on a show for themselves that you have no wish to see because it depressing, confusing, boring and pointless.
The one question I wanted to ask them all was "Wouldn't it just be easier if we just had a one party state? We already have a de facto one party state, we might as well have a de jure one.
Ancient Athens and Republican Rome were effectively one-party states, weren't they?
We also know how Athens destroyed itself too. The Athenian equivalent of NATO and/or the EU was of course the Delian League.
Why can't the political classes devote their time and energy talking about real issues of government rather than sweeping them under the carpet and playing around with the rules?
Democracy has not been good for Britain when you think how much it has lost as a consequence of of the operation of democracy, explained at http://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/poppy-mania-day-prevents-any-rational.html
The enemies of society are sluts and socialists, the enemies of the British Plaid Cymru, the SNP and the English Democrats
Democracy allows the toxic ideology of feminism to thrive and take over all the organs of state. True/False #GE2015
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 27, 2015
Every time you vote, the number of Slut Single Mothers and their illegitimate offspring increases. True/False #GE2015
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 27, 2015
Every time you vote, the number of paedophiles increases. True/False #GE2015
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 27, 2015
Voting causes feminism which causes immigration, family breakdown, illegitimacy degeneracy and paedophilia. True/False #GE2015
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 27, 2015
Does 1) voting or 2) elections lower Western IQ? http://t.co/nHqei4OEQz #GE2015
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 27, 2015
If government noticeably worsens after every election, should we stop 1) voting or 2) holding general elections? #GE2015
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 27, 2015
If voting makes us more stupid and degenerate, we should stop voting and abolish representative democracy. Logical/Illogical #GE2015
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) April 27, 2015
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