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Policy discussion forums, open or closed?
When the PPUK’s policy discussion forums were closed I was aware of it, but as a paid-up member not really affected by it. At least that’s what I thought. I should also confess that I didn’t pay any attention to the debate surround the issue before or after the decision was made, and have blissfully…
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Dogfooding STV and the Board of Governors
The Pirate Party UK recently held elections for their Board of Governors, and with 12 seats up for grabs the fairest and most logical voting method to use was a Single Transferable Vote using the Electoral Reform Society’s 1997 guidelines. The ‘dog food’ of the blog title refers to using the same tools and technologies…
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Date of the AV referendum
David Cameron has been urged to rethink plans for holding a referendum on voting reform at the same time as the Scottish Parliamentary election. Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond said in a letter to the prime minister that holding the votes on the same day could “overshadow” devolved issues. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/10586076.stm To be honest, if the…
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Open source and Schools
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FPTP, AV, and PR
Yesterday saw the announcement of details of the coalition government’s plan for a voting reform referendum. As suspected true proportional representation (PR) isn’t on the table. Instead the choice is between the current first past the post (FPTP) system and the proposed alternative vote (AV) system. What is FPTP? This is relatively simple, and is…
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Copyright and Patent reform
I’ve just read a great post by a fellow PPUKer on Copyrights and Patents, which is well worth a read before you continue reading my post here. Despite wanting to make non-commercial file-sharing legal, that doesn’t mean the Pirate Party UK wants to allow things such as counterfeiting and people profiting from other people’s works without proper…