Comments on: Separating powers http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/2006/02/21/separating-powers/ Because all the other domain names were taken Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:53:48 +0000 hourly 1 By: MatGB http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/2006/02/21/separating-powers/comment-page-1/#comment-1710 MatGB Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:28:48 +0000 http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/blog/?p=848#comment-1710 The TVC is quite simply a placeholder until the people running it are sorted on what they're doing; I'm much more interested in Liberty Central myself; I'm a constitution wonk at heart, and it really appeals to be working on something that might get somewhere. I'll comment on your tactical voting post in a bit, but essentially (and no idea about your background in this stuff so assume knowledge), Duverger and other theorists, especially rational choice theory, pretty much prove that, in FPTP, third party squeeze exists in every district, a tactical campaign simply drives it faster. Of course, it's not always easy to call, and sometimes weird things happen (I think of the Cornish seat where the LibDems went from 3rd to 1st, etc). Liberty Central will discuss (and hopefully approve, electoral reform. But to get it, you'd need first to get a govt in favour of change. That almost certainly means a change using the current system. No conflict there, ideally a change, reality requires a fight based on current rules. Two things will probably conflict at times, but Liberty Central will conflict with itself a lot. I hope so, groupthink is deathly dull. The TVC is quite simply a placeholder until the people running it are sorted on what they’re doing; I’m much more interested in Liberty Central myself; I’m a constitution wonk at heart, and it really appeals to be working on something that might get somewhere.

I’ll comment on your tactical voting post in a bit, but essentially (and no idea about your background in this stuff so assume knowledge), Duverger and other theorists, especially rational choice theory, pretty much prove that, in FPTP, third party squeeze exists in every district, a tactical campaign simply drives it faster. Of course, it’s not always easy to call, and sometimes weird things happen (I think of the Cornish seat where the LibDems went from 3rd to 1st, etc).

Liberty Central will discuss (and hopefully approve, electoral reform. But to get it, you’d need first to get a govt in favour of change. That almost certainly means a change using the current system. No conflict there, ideally a change, reality requires a fight based on current rules.

Two things will probably conflict at times, but Liberty Central will conflict with itself a lot. I hope so, groupthink is deathly dull.

]]> By: Unity http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/2006/02/21/separating-powers/comment-page-1/#comment-1706 Unity Wed, 22 Feb 2006 00:26:58 +0000 http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/blog/?p=848#comment-1706 >>> It would certainly help, I think, in having each project’s goals properly embedded in their technological setup from the start.

That’s exactly what’s going to happen.

Liberty Central will be a Joomla powered site with its own Wiki and an integrated WordPress 2 blog configured for group blogging – discussion forums may come a little later but for now I’ve got 15-20Gb of bandwidth to get started with so need to go a little easy at the start.

I am looking around for the better hosting package, with far more bandwidth but for now I can provide the wherewithal to get started within the package I’ve got.

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