Category: Political
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#365daysofpolitics day 13: data wrangling
I’ve started work today on a script to automatically generated the seats data needed for the election data project. With that done, future elections should be easier to put together.
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#365daysofpolitics day 12: OMG PEOPLE
Today was the first time I actually met my fellow party officers. It sounds – and feels – weird that only today, after a general election, I met with the guys that stood for parliament under the manifesto that I helped to build with them. Paul and James were exactly as I’d envisaged and more.…
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#365daysofpolitics day 11: the missing day
You may have noticed day 10 went missing. My excuse is a camping trip with friends, although we did chat a bit about politics so it wasn’t a completely politics-free day. That brings me nicely on to something I’ve been thinking about. I feel guilty if I don’t have much to show for a day.…
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#365daysofpolitics day 9: ticking along
A busy work day means very little opportunity to actually do anything else today. So I’ve only managed to engage a bit on the Manifesto. I’ve also begun exploring the idea of joining a union. I believe in the principle of union membership, but I’ve never felt the ‘need’ as such. However, I’ve been thinking recently…
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#365daysofpolitics day 8: fielding candidates
A bit more manifesto wrangling today, including merging another successful proposal in. Then I’ve spent some of my evening doing my job as Tech officer for Something New. We have two new candidates standing in forthcoming elections – Lindsey Garrett for London Mayor and Jessie Macneil-Brown in Tower Hamlets Stepney Ward – so I’ve been arranging some technical…
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#365daysofpolitics day 7: defending our rights
A quiet day of political slacktivism today. I cleared the backlog of Manifesto proposals I hadn’t read/replied to/voted on. Update: I hadn’t noticed it until now, so I’ve just signed this petition demanding a referendum on the scrapping of the human rights act that the Government wants to force on us. I strongly suggest you sign it too.
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#365daysofpolitics day 6: pleading
I’ve just finished off a bunch of work to the 2015 election stats project I’ve been working on. Thanks to contributions from others, it looks like we now have votes for all constituencies and the validation is passing – woohoo! There’s some next steps, which I’ve created issues for. Feel free to help me out…
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#365daysofpolitics day 5: shout
After doing so little yesterday, I started early today, signing up to volunteer with the People’s Assembly Against Austerity before I’d even gotten out of bed. I’m also planning to go to their protest outside the Bank of England on 20th June – join me! Following my note on day 3 about my new role in…
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Majority Government = Powerful Government: The Stability Fallacy
Our Parliament (aka our legislature) is made up of two “houses”: House of Commons – comprised of MPs, as voted for in a general election House of Lords – comprised of unelected Lords, appointed by the Government When a majority Government (aka the executive) is in place it results in two fundamental truths; More than 50%…