Tag Archives: Politics

A Fairer Way to Vote?

So today the UK went to the polling stations to vote in national and local elections but also on a referendum on how we elect our MPs. There have been many adverts and TV broadcast both for and against the Alternative Vote (AV) system and it’s a shame how it’s all been done. There’s nothing [...]

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Hung Parliament Then

So after weeks of posturing, live TV debates and canvassing the UK has ended up with a hung Parliament. In all honesty this is nothing strange for a democratic country so all the ho-ha is slightly over dramatic (as is the picture I chose). However it seems that everyone knew this would be the outcome [...]

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Nothing Like Good PR and a Smile

George W Bush has paid a jokey visit to a hardware store in Dallas, Texas, which offered him a job as a greeter. The former US president entered the Elliott’s outlet with his security detail saying “I’m looking for a job”, store manager Andrea Bond said. The owner of the Texas chain made the offer [...]

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Suggest-A-Topic #2

Rob Lesslie wrote: My rights are non-conditional. My right to life is non-conditional, ergo my right to free speech is non-conditional. Therefore, I can say and draw whatever I want about who ever I want, even if it offends Muslims! Hmm this is quite a tough one to respond and is quite topical at the [...]

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