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andrewducker) wrote2022-10-21 09:55 am
andrewducker) wrote2022-10-21 09:55 am
How *should* we be able to trigger an early election?
The UK has no mechanism for triggering a general election early that isn't dependent on the existing representatives choosing put themselves at risk.
If you were to institute a mechanism for triggering a general election that didn't involve representatives choosing to hold one, what would it be?
Mine would be to specify that if reputable polling institutions (either certified by the British Polling Council or the Electoral Council) found there was ¾ support for the question "There should be a general election" for a continuous period of one month then one should be held.
75% because it should only be only in very unusual circumstances where the government had gone very wrong, and continuous for a month to make sure that a couple of statistical anomalies didn't throw things off.
You?
If you were to institute a mechanism for triggering a general election that didn't involve representatives choosing to hold one, what would it be?
Mine would be to specify that if reputable polling institutions (either certified by the British Polling Council or the Electoral Council) found there was ¾ support for the question "There should be a general election" for a continuous period of one month then one should be held.
75% because it should only be only in very unusual circumstances where the government had gone very wrong, and continuous for a month to make sure that a couple of statistical anomalies didn't throw things off.
You?
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How quickly - was July-December 2019 quick enough ?
Other than Brexit (for which she had some sort of mandate*) which manifesto policies did May dump ?
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* I wish Cameron had said
"The country has decided that ... it is divided and a large part of it wants something different, but I have no clue what it wants."
and banged a bunch of heads together (including Johnson and perhaps Farage) telling them to come back with a plan for Brexit, which he could take to the country.
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