tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062377461026943825.post773673745124941449..comments2023-10-19T22:49:15.517+01:00Comments on Ulster's Doomed!: Clegg’s Great Reform ActHorsemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16655806346968204169noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062377461026943825.post-24670933733968928602010-05-20T01:23:20.824+01:002010-05-20T01:23:20.824+01:00I think ATV would have major implications on the g...I think ATV would have major implications on the ground (assuming present boundaries):<br />1.The SDLP insulated against SF in Foyle and South Down - unionist tactical voting.<br />2.SDLP gain from SF in Newry/Armagh - unionist tactical voting.<br />3.Possible SF gain in North Belfast - SDLP transfers.<br />4.SF ringfenced in F&ST.<br />5. Possible unionist (of some stripe) gain in East Belfast from Alliance through various unionists inter-transferring.Ivannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062377461026943825.post-9730901878752551072010-05-19T20:36:42.354+01:002010-05-19T20:36:42.354+01:00Horseman - Perhaps you are being a bit too imagina...Horseman - Perhaps you are being a bit too imaginative in speculating that, 'Now while he refers to ‘serious wrongdoing’, it would not be a stretch to include some form of penalisation for abstentionism in this context'<br />The term 'wrongdoing', let alone of the serious variety, strongly implies the breaking of an ethical or moral code. <br />I don't think that one could reasonably hold a refusal to take up a seat in Westminster to be any more a serious wrongdoing than say the action of those MPs who visit it infrequently and say little apart from 'hear, hear' when they do. At least the former is done on the basis of a strongly felt belief.<br />Also in what court would the non-attending MP 'have been found guilty of serious wrongdoing', which Clegg also specifies as a prerequisite for sacking?New times, New approachnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062377461026943825.post-29786330055114634982010-05-19T18:53:37.072+01:002010-05-19T18:53:37.072+01:00http://www.demos.co.uk/files/LiberalRepublic_web2b...http://www.demos.co.uk/files/LiberalRepublic_web2bb.pdf?1242120969hoboroadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01474379737795624096noreply@blogger.com