A week off work – much needed. Lots of tinkering, house chores and downtime. Also stumbled on two cracking Post Box toppers, one celebrating Star Wars day! Found these on my daily walks, now on day 3344 of consecutive walks of at least 30 mins…but the weight is still growing! Politics unavoidable this week and Labour, particularly Keir Starmer, are in a right mess. Some thoughts on the past week: We need an update of the voting system to better reflect vote share. Regional list votes help, but you can still see issues when you look at overall votes cast. From 2021, Ballot Box Scotland had a good analysis on options. Sir John Curtice also had a good analysis on how FPTP has now turned against Labout and Tories. Winners – Greens, Lib Dems and Reform. Also SNP but on a reduced vote share and number of seats. Losers – Tory’s and especially Labour given just two years ago they were probably favourites in Scotland. Seeing narrative that Scotland has moved more right wing – certainly more…
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