Recent comments

Most recent annotations on things by Lord Strathclyde

  • David Wright: So, yes, Germany can amend the Treaty; but we in the UK will be denied the 'promised' referendum whatever happens. Lord Strathclyde is of course following the Cameron party line in the way we... (3 November 2010)
    Read annotation | All by this user
  • anne greagsby: Campaigners had consistently revealed that claims that the military college would bring thousands of jobs to the area were wrong from the start. The project was in reality job reduction over the... (20 October 2010)
    Read annotation | All by this user
  • Stephen Hoffman: this argument is weak. For a start he says they have an interest, this interest could be used to exert pressure on our budget before we introduce the budget to parliament, and therefore it is a... (22 June 2010)
    Read annotation | All by this user
  • David Wright: If only we could rely on the spirit of this policy as well as the letter! (22 June 2010)
    Read annotation | All by this user
  • Joe Patterson: Anthony Tuffin in his excellent comment mentions that both Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic have both for many years had STV. Northern Ireland is particularly interesting. This was... (3 March 2009)
    Read annotation | All by this user
  • Anthony Tuffin: I am not a member of the Liberal Democrats or any other party, but Lord Strathclyde was talking through the back of his noble head when he described the Single Transferable Vote (STV) system,... (2 March 2009)
    Read annotation | All by this user
  • Mr Raymond Neal: Lord Strathclyde, After reading your comments on the economic crisis, I came upon this statement:- The finer details of the £480 million support package for the Pakistani government have been... (16 December 2008)
    Read annotation | All by this user
  • neil warwick: "lack of touch, lack of feel" - i agree! (15 May 2008)
    Read annotation | All by this user
  • Mark Bestford: Kieran, the problem is that the party with the least votes can actually win a majority of seats if the boundaries are set just right. There's also a big inconsistency with constituency sizes.... (4 July 2007)
    Read annotation | All by this user
  • kieran Locke: i agree with you mark the current system is complicated and no longer works with the many different partys now in existence. however im not convinced that labour purposely fiddled the results but... (4 July 2007)
    Read annotation | All by this user
  • Mark Bestford: "This has demonstrated the weakness of proportional representation and we see no case for importing that system to Parliament." For shame. FPTP has been abused by both the tories and labour... (4 July 2007)
    Read annotation | All by this user
  • Tom Black: Quite right, too. How can the new Prime Minister seriously talk about constitutional reform without mentioning the West Lothian Question or the Barnett Formula? For the Prime Minister to be... (4 July 2007)
    Read annotation | All by this user
  • Patrick Harris: At last the penny has dropped, once again the Scots lay claim to the phrase "West Lothian Question" when in fact it was Enoch Powell, a very wise man in many areas of politics, that coined the... (3 March 2007)
    Read annotation | All by this user
  • David Wright: Hilarious! Better than anything on TV. (20 February 2007)
    Read annotation | All by this user