lex-man wrote:Have UKIP said anything about fairness? I've been thinking about this and while they didn't win much they got what they really wanted. They got the EU referendum and the removal of the human rights act. They really got the tories to capitulate with their desires.
I'm someone who would have voted UKIP at the General Election if I felt they had any serious chance of getting into Government, but instead voted Conservative for purely tactical reasons (to keep Miliband out and to get the EU referendum 'red lined' by Cameron). The fact that UKIP are left with just one MP after achieving such a huge popular vote (nearly four million people in the UK voted for them,
which would have translated to 83 actual seats in Parliament under proportional representation), whilst the Scottish Nationalists, who achieved just 50% of the vote in Scotland somehow made off with almost 100% of the available Parliamentary seats (56). It's a travesty of democracy.
Personally, I'm not in favour of abolishing the Human Rights Act and I don't think it is either fair or correct to assert that anyone who voted Conservative would necessarily be in favour of such a thing. I hope we can renegotiate it, though, so that we are not forced into impossibly silly situations like being prevented from deporting Islamic Militant scumbags back to the hellholes they came from. That would be a good start.
EDIT: Also:
Amber Rudd is the new comically-monikered Energy and Climate Change Secretary
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-32683868Will she be even half as critical of the dominant CAGW narrative as Ed Davey
failed utterly to be? Time will tell.
H/T to
Bishop Hill for this:
In an interview last year she (Ms Rudd) had this to say:
"The main purpose for me [here] is to get up to speed with the relationships and the issues to do with delivering one of the most important things we're ever going to do, which is limiting global warming to under 2°C. I don't think you could get a cigarette paper between me and Labour on our commitment to getting a deal in Paris."
Say hello to the new boss, same as the old boss.
However,
it turns out she is a committed shale gas enthusiast, so perhaps not all doom and gloom...
EDIT:
In better news:
Veteran Tory MP
John Whittingdale is to become Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
BBC licence fee 'worse than poll tax', says John Whittingdale
Chairman of Department for Culture, Media and Sport committee, says licence fee must be 'tweaked' immediately, with BBC funding methods changed altogether in coming decades
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvan ... gdale.htmlHere's hoping.