Ot labour will get in

[Eternal Optimist]

Like Farage? The ex-Coutts banker.

Farage has never worked in the banking industry, but he has successfully sued Coutts bank.

Banking boss Dame Alison Rose has apologised to Nigel Farage for "deeply inappropriate" comments made about him in a document on his suitability as a Coutts customer.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66258137

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Tbf 3 issues with one common denominator.

Council handouts?

[mellowmiller]

"and rightly so"? Why?

Maybe because proportional representation is a fairer version of democracy?
The main two parties will never allow it to happen though because it would threaten their alternating domination.
We really could do with a credible third alternative because maybe then we really would see an opportunity for change rather than a continual rehash of pretty much the same thing.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Maybe because proportional representation is a fairer version of democracy?
The main two parties will never allow it to happen though because it would threaten their alternating domination.
We really could do with a credible third alternative because maybe then we really would see an opportunity for change rather than a continual rehash of pretty much the same thing.

That's very true.

I would like to see an extra option on every ballot paper, a box that says " none of these" and to make the returning officer declare how many voted " none of these"

[UlleyMiller]

That's very true.

I would like to see an extra option on every ballot paper, a box that says " none of these" and to make the returning officer declare how many voted " none of these"

Spoil your paper. That's been an option for some time. I'm surprised there isn't more focus on people doing this.

[UlleyMiller]

Maybe because proportional representation is a fairer version of democracy?
The main two parties will never allow it to happen though because it would threaten their alternating domination.
We really could do with a credible third alternative because maybe then we really would see an opportunity for change rather than a continual rehash of pretty much the same thing.

The danger with fairness in democracy is that it gives too much sway to people who probably shouldn't be involved in such decisions. It's already quite scary that people with low IQs, no work ethic, an inability to keep their lives in order, and all sorts of other issues, get the same, single vote as people who work hard, raise their families right, care about their community, and go through life as net contributors. I'm comfortable sacrificing fairness on the grounds that there is no clear pathway to fairly distributing voting power.

Successful organisations are rarely, if ever, fair and democratic.

[mygiddypant]

Farage has never worked in the banking industry, but he has successfully sued Coutts bank.



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66258137

I didn't say that Farage worked as a banker at Coutts. He was, at one point, a stockbroker. A good, working-class occupation.

I assumed that people with some interest in politics would remember that he banked with the exclusive Coutts bank. Farage likes to promote himself as a 'man of the people', but it's Farage inventing himself to promote himself. Just like he did with Brexit.

He's another Johnson.

[Eternal Optimist]

...Farage likes to promote himself as a 'man of the people', but it's Farage inventing himself to promote himself. Just like he did with Brexit...

Yeah, that's precisely how the (controlled) mainstream media portray him, yet those who've met him often take the opposite view.

[crashbang]

I like garage, he shoots from the hip.

[crashbang]

FFS farage predictive bollix