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6. Steve at 824 last evening

MftWC 4:

Austria’s Right Wing ‘Freedom Party’ Receives Most Votes in Today’s Election – Exit Polls

JH with this:

MftWC 3:

MSNBC Contributor Admits Harris Campaign is Struggling With Men: ‘Young Men, Older Men, Men of Color, White Men’

MftWC 2:

Massive Drone Strikes Targeted Seven Russian Rear Region

MftWC 1:

Scotland’s Chief Medical Officer tells UK Covid Inquiry hospitals were inundated with Covid patients – hospital records show the opposite

5. Leggy

4. Ain’t no chickens around here, boss

3. Daily Sceptic (TDS, in blogrolls)

2. Jenrick’s gambit

When one needs to steal the entire quote but there’s a thing called netiquette, so one can only post a fragment and a link. AKH wrote, about Jenrick’s rubbish:

Asked about his past defence of former Conservative Party policies, the shadow home secretary said: “I have been a team player, which has meant I have had to promote other people’s ideas. I was happy to do so, it’s what you do as part of a team.”

Other people’s ideas eh? A pity they weren’t conservative ideas or even common sense ideas, true ideas, insightful ideas, scientific ideas, ideas about integrity and veracity …. (JH: and much more) …

The comments thread completes the picture.

These people are out of touch and morally bankrupt. Let’s return to the system, in the hands of and supposedly defended by paragons of virtue … MPs.

Essentially, 16.9% of eligible voters or 20.5%, depending on your figures, returned this govt, in these gerrymandered numbers, where the people engineering this fraud knew full well that people were either voting alien pressure group or red rosette as they always have.

What there was not … and the unprincipled again know this full well … what there was not was any political savvy among normies, any knowledge of political history, any thinking through … any interest in it at all.

There are various things at work:

*the lying by the wholly bought media, keeping normies in ignorance

*the parachuting in of candidates, often in the final stages, reducing scrutiny

*the notion of collective responsibility to Party only and Whips (thugs) to enforce it

*the electoral system itself

*this quote about “democracy”:

On the electoral system, first past the post enables, in this case, a single large party due to voter disgust with another party, without considering the untried but in France, it was often a coalition of various shades of left, until Micron just said no … and seemingly got away with it.

What is called AV here and downunder preferential, requires voters to put 1, 2, 3, 4 etc. in boxes next to names. In the hand count, whoever had the least votes goes out and his/her supporter’s second preferences come into play, votes placed on those other piles. Eventually, it ends up two-party preferred, with one winner. Produces two party parlmts.

Proportional … favouring coalitions of the left and few good policies.

None of those are good but the most iniquitous, perhaps, is a minority govt, on votes, ramming through policies anathema to a vast majority on votes but minority on seats.

1. DAD at 825

a) France’s vast public debt pile grew in the second quarter, official figures showed Friday, as Prime Minister Michel Barnier’s shaky minority government girds itself for a gruelling budget debate.

b) This “way of managing money and doing business that is consistent with the moral principles of Islam”, as defined by the Bank of England, has long flown under the radar of the general public.

JH: I plan to run this from DAD elsewhere too, not sure where yet.

c) Whilst literature teachers were once the only ones to sound the alarm, it is now all secondary and university teachers who are paying the price for this drop in standards. “My final year students are becoming incapable of constructing a sentence logically…”

d) Monday Mirthday.