Archive for the ‘Electoral politics’ Category
Tuesday, October 4th, 2005
Earlier this year I provided a brief report of my complaint to the Irish Labour Party. It's been a long and eventful summer since then. On 16th September, after a round or two of correspondence, I reconfirmed my complaint and made another formal submission by email.
This morning, 4th October, I ...
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Monday, October 3rd, 2005
Just recently I'd been reading about, and telling others about, the use of the phrase and a pony, when making wish lists. And then I come across this piece, about a documentary on the inside story of Kerry's presidential campaign:It is marked with bizarre moments such as when Loftus rants ...
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Monday, June 13th, 2005
The world of politics is a cynical one, one where you take advantage where you can get it. There's something troubling though about news of a Fine Gael motion to be debated next week.
The Irish minister for justice recently announced two different plans that have run into opposition from ...
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Saturday, May 28th, 2005
I have to say I agree with Tommy Broughan. I haven't heard yet what's happening with the EU constitution issue.
Update: It seems the two motions dealing with the party's position on the constitution will be dealt with tomorrow morning (in the session that no one attends - at my last ...
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Monday, May 23rd, 2005
There is so much of concern at the moment - the 'war on terror', rendition and torture of prisoners for one thing, the shameful response to the Uzbeki massacre for another (word was that the EU would issue harsh words today but not cancel its co-operation agreement with Uzbekistan) - ...
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Friday, May 13th, 2005
Sometimes you can't make it up. Except someone did.PageRank is an algorithm that allows the best leaders to determine who the best leaders are, eliminating the popularity game of conventional populistic-democracy. SD2 can be used by nonprofits, businesses, government entities, but it is intended to be best for grass-roots activism ...
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Friday, May 6th, 2005
A story from EU Observer fleshes out the news of the Irish government's plans to curb the right to a referendum on new EU treaties (as already reported on funferal). Specifically it seems the proposal will be rolled into the text of the referendum on the EU constitution. As I ...
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Thursday, May 5th, 2005
George Galloway has won in Bethnal Green for Respect-Unity Coalition running (unsurprisingly) on an anti-war platform. It was predicted earlier by the BBC, but it took a while for the result to come out. Galloway is somewhat controversial as a figure, but the message from the electorate is - well, ...
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Thursday, May 5th, 2005
Watching the results as they happen can reveal the most interesting bits of information. Labour has lost the 'safest seat in Wales' to an independent candidate. Why? Well seemingly Peter Law, the new MP, was a member of the Labour Party but resigned in order to run against the Labour ...
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Thursday, May 5th, 2005
What do you do when you worry that the people will reject deals done by political elites? You propose removing the ability of the people to reject those deals.
Ireland has had quite a number of EU-related referendums over the years, with the people voting against the Nice Treaty before they ...
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