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These are all second and third order effects.

Your mindset needs resetting. The electorate selects and votes for a person to represent them not a political party. That that person is a member of a specific political party is their personal choice. The political parties don't need fair . Its the electorate who get fair .. and the fairness...

Again no problem. PR can handle multiseat and single seat with the exact same strategy. If it has 3 vacant seats , the quota is 33% of the valid poll plus 1 , and the person with lowest number of aggregate votes after each round is eliminated, until either there are equal number of...

Very easy. The quota is set at 50% of the valid poll plus 1. So in round one .. nobody gets that and nobody is elected. . Let us assume The numbers are more like 25% for A 26% for B 20% for C and a number of candidates at the 3% range. .. . So all the 3%s are eliminated and their second...

Had PR been in play, there would have been no possibility of the Tories winning that seat.

..and of these virtues , as St Paul might have reminded us , Silence is the greatest and endures

..the acceleration does not use more energy ..that is down to air resistance, what it uses is more instantaneous power

Having had Crossover types ..A Scenic and now a Peugeot 3008, Hell will freeze over before I revert to a low slung . Of course the higher profile means less sporty looks and worse MPG , but I am long beyond trading on my image, and I don't travel so fast that the air resistance is critical.

I yesterday received an extensive email from An Post ..The Irish equivalent of the Royal Mail. Basically it said that all goods coming from the UK , were now subject to duty and the exemption which existed up to today 1st July on small value ..under 22euro , was now gone. Anything coming...

This one might have escaped you all but the High Court in Belfast today has cleared up a conundrum. The Act of Union of 1800 which joined Ireland to GB is no more. A group of Conservatives including your redoubtable kate Hoey took a case arguing that the NI Protocol was unconstitutional or...

Cop yourself on!. This is the intrinsic difference between would and should . If one is a small operation in Spain , Ireland or Germany and you are a retail customer in the UK, they will charge the full price they will charge their local customer within the EU. They will then send in their...

And no, I lasted 10 minutes once on a hurling field , being the coward I am.

..only because the games are shorter!.. if you want to see mind blowing athleticism look at the All Ireland Hurling final. Then remember these guys ( the girls version is Camogie) are amateurs.

Well that will be the situation on any goods purchased from a EU member state and to any retail eg not VAT Registered customer. I cannot see that it would be applicable for countries outside the EU ,who run different regimes. I would take it as reading that you the UK customer can assume that...

Very much a stretch... . Obviously someone has a bee in their bonnet about this medicine .

The huge difference between then and now is that the global population for most of recorded history was about 500 million , and we now have 7000 million.. this is not just a linear increase, but more like Factorial in the number of interactions per second., Then factor in the multiplier for...

It was indeed.. and that was the reason I did not include the bulk of your posting. It was a feeble attempt at self depreciation humour. Perhaps I should leave that to experts.

"I suspect the trouble is that Boris is not comfortable in the company of more capable people." Not a problem I have, but then I don't have as much practice. .

I have a Thule 3 bike carrier. Towbar hitch. One of the cheaper models. It comes with nylon or polyester tapes with buckles and quick release clamps. However they are rather poor and standard Halford straps are fine .. I cut them shorter than the 1 metre and singed the end with a lighter to...

Nigel, Without in any way undermining your position and experience and expertise, what you see is one side of the equation. .. Those who have fallen, and fallen badly enough to need going to hospital and then even more so to need the services of the consultant. The simple cuts and grazes would...