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Ah well since the threads are already hammering past...Forgive me for being a little bit off-message but:
Edit I may well do something alittle bit more positive later on but from a first glance through the website this was my overwhelming and depressing impression.
Edit I may well do something alittle bit more positive later on but from a first glance through the website this was my overwhelming and depressing impression.
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barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!,
Wed 12 Aug 2009, 15:30,
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Cynics are made, not born. ;)
( barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!,
Wed 12 Aug 2009, 15:33,
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Vote CynicIs there a correlation between the lack of interest in modern politics, the dwindling of attention spans and the rise of Twitter? Answer only if you bothered to read this far.
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Wed 12 Aug 2009, 17:51,
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Oooh you big cynical cynicwith all your realistic outlooks....
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The magic of chutney Shakes it like an Instagram filter!,
Wed 12 Aug 2009, 15:33,
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Hahahaha*giggles*
Have you got your head in your hands right about now?
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Barbarossa is not my real name,
Wed 12 Aug 2009, 15:34,
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nahcritical debate is a good and healthy thing.
Anyway - these people aren't Virgin selling a credit card using an idea nicked from a Danny Wallace book.
(Anyway - these people aren't Virgin selling a credit card using an idea nicked from a Danny Wallace book.
rob,
Wed 12 Aug 2009, 15:38,
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Hahahahopefully they're not as easily scared either.
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mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ,
Wed 12 Aug 2009, 15:50,
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Yeah sorry...I didn't want to annoy the sponsors, I really didn't, but...
I totally sympathise with what they are trying to achieve, but I think they aren't going about it particularly effectively.
(I totally sympathise with what they are trying to achieve, but I think they aren't going about it particularly effectively.
barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!,
Wed 12 Aug 2009, 15:35,
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needs more more then 9000 penises
Floppy Donkey crawled out of the ditch.,
Wed 12 Aug 2009, 15:35,
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Vague and muddled is all but mandatory for this sort of thing, it would seem.If you can squeeze in some "populist", "ill-thought-out" and "wilfully and meretriciously divorced from reality", it'd help.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight,
Wed 12 Aug 2009, 15:35,
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It is a nice excuse to waft a placard about, though.If you stay downwind from protestors on a hot day, you'll always stay cool.
True story.
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Captain Howdy,
Wed 12 Aug 2009, 15:38,
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I'm have to be honest, I'm a little uncomfortable about b3ta getting involved in a political campaign.I've checked the Vote For A Change website and it reads fairly neutrally as an electoral reform organization, but I have no idea who's behind it or what their personal agenda is.
"Electoral Reform" is one of those phrases, like "Change", that sounds refreshing and fair and overdue. But it's worth remembering that there are many types and variations of alternative voting systems, and every one of them has the potential to enhance one group's aims over others. I can't actually see what this site is proposing or who it would most directly benefit. And let's face it, anyone who would go to all the trouble these people have gone to must have some personal stake.
("Electoral Reform" is one of those phrases, like "Change", that sounds refreshing and fair and overdue. But it's worth remembering that there are many types and variations of alternative voting systems, and every one of them has the potential to enhance one group's aims over others. I can't actually see what this site is proposing or who it would most directly benefit. And let's face it, anyone who would go to all the trouble these people have gone to must have some personal stake.
mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ,
Wed 12 Aug 2009, 15:38,
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I'm slightly worried, too...I detect a whiff of a slightly fluffier Taxpayers' Alliance.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight,
Wed 12 Aug 2009, 15:41,
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Felix, my real worry is that it's aliens.Aliens full of mercury.
( mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ,
Wed 12 Aug 2009, 15:43,
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I see here a nice list of well-meaning, fluffy, if naive peoplevoteforachange.co.uk/index.php/pages/our-supporters/
and Polly Toynbee. PR is a red herring, which makes it easier for small parties to get attention and harder for anybody to get anything done, but whatever. Vote Cubist.
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Wed 12 Aug 2009, 15:47,
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and Polly Toynbee. PR is a red herring, which makes it easier for small parties to get attention and harder for anybody to get anything done, but whatever. Vote Cubist.
that's Polly "I'm right, especially when I'm provably wrong" Toynbee, right?
Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus,
Wed 12 Aug 2009, 15:54,
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they want a referendum about reforming parliamentthe drummer from Blur writes about it here
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jul/13/british-party-electoral-system-votes
basically they're a bunch of fluffy liberals who like things like the Single Transferable Vote - rather than being a cover for fascists.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Transferable_Vote
Also yes - I was a bit wary about mixing b3ta with politics myself but they asked nicely, offered a good prize and life is more interesting by running with these things than saying no.
(www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jul/13/british-party-electoral-system-votes
basically they're a bunch of fluffy liberals who like things like the Single Transferable Vote - rather than being a cover for fascists.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Transferable_Vote
Also yes - I was a bit wary about mixing b3ta with politics myself but they asked nicely, offered a good prize and life is more interesting by running with these things than saying no.
rob,
Wed 12 Aug 2009, 15:54,
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Aye, we'll have fun with it whatever :) mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ,
Wed 12 Aug 2009, 16:29,
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What sort of change, though?Return to monarchy? A dictatorship? Also, I can see a sillouette of Alfred Hitchcock in the top of the 'V'.
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Smallbrainfield,
Wed 12 Aug 2009, 15:43,
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I think the "V" is the clue.It's lizards my friend, lizards all the way down.
( mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ,
Wed 12 Aug 2009, 15:45,
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I sort of agreeBecause I'm sick of the people saying "It's all crap we need something different" without having something different they are ready to explain and defend.
This "Vote fo a Change" is no doubt run by the same malcontent no-hopers that come out with a new party every so often, the same also-rans that never get elected.
It seems to be promoting proportional representation. Which to me means not putting the best politicians forward, but putting the crap ones forward too. Either that or it's the insanity of direct democracy.
The best message for people isn't "Throw Westminister away, it's all shit!" it's "Get involved in politics and change things".
However I hope this vote for a change fails. I'm sick and fed up of people saying it's crap without having a solution.
(This "Vote fo a Change" is no doubt run by the same malcontent no-hopers that come out with a new party every so often, the same also-rans that never get elected.
It seems to be promoting proportional representation. Which to me means not putting the best politicians forward, but putting the crap ones forward too. Either that or it's the insanity of direct democracy.
The best message for people isn't "Throw Westminister away, it's all shit!" it's "Get involved in politics and change things".
However I hope this vote for a change fails. I'm sick and fed up of people saying it's crap without having a solution.
Halk,
Thu 13 Aug 2009, 21:03,
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