A mixed bag of results.
By far the most profound is the SNP success and, when all other results are forgotten in a few years as political fortunes change (as they will), I wonder if we will look back on Thursday 6 May as the day that started the beginning of the end game in the final move towards Scotland's independence. And if Scotland achieve independence through the ballot box, can Wales be far behind?
Probably best not to speculate on Cornwall's status..........at this stage.
Well, Cllr Ridgers, there may be hope yet - particularly in the light of the lead Cornwall Council is taking in removing non-resident multiple electoral roll registering voters from the electoral rolls of Cornwall & Scilly and the consequential restoration of democratic voting powers to the people who actually live in The Duchy.
ReplyDeletePerhaps we'll be getting genuinely democratic 'One Person-One Vote' elections and referendums in The Duchy and elsewhere in the UK in due course as a result. We certainly don't have them at the moment, do we.
Of course all those voting figures announced by the Electoral Commission are, concomitantly, are false.
Electoral Commission endemic and pernicious inadequate scrutiny and false reporting of the validity of votes cast extends all the way from EU elections down to parish council elections:
Consider the questions posed here:
http://twitter.com/#!/CornwallNews
of the Electoral Commission.
If you care that accuracy and integrity in these matters is fundamental to the most basic democratic principles you will ask them some of those questions and post up their responses which, if your sense of propriety is alive and well, you will find considerably less than satisfactory nor appropriate in relation to what standards of scrutiny and enforcement we expect the Electoral Commission to exercise.
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