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Who rigged Britain’s hung parliament? ‘The Institute’ rigged it.

Caz | 26.08.2012 17:10 | Education | Globalisation | Social Struggles | Cambridge

Quote from ‘The Institute for Government’ Annual Accounts, 2011:

'Just think of the role that The Institute for Government ....played for preparing the ground for a hung parliament and enabling the creation of a coalition government...’


Who rigged Britain’s hung parliament? ‘The Institute’ rigged it.

Quote from ‘The Institute for Government’ Annual Accounts, 2011:

Just think of the role that The Institute for Government ....played for preparing the ground for a hung parliament and enabling the creation of a coalition government...’

Institute for Government Annual Reports and Accounts, 2009, 2010, 2011:

 https://www.lifeinthemix.info/institute-government-annual-reports-accounts-2009-10-11/

Reports on who is now running the country here:

Creating a hung parliament for a coalition government : The Institute for Government
 https://www.lifeinthemix.info/2012/08/creating-hung-parliament-coalition-government/

Institute for Government knew of the aim to form hung parliament in 2010, as early as 2009
 https://www.lifeinthemix.info/2012/08/institute-government/

Caz

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cause and effect

26.08.2012 19:39

>> "Just think of the role that the Institute for Government... played in preparing the ground for a hung parliament and enabling the creation of a coalition government.”

Oh dear... you really are a big thick arn't you?

The hung parliament happened because that's how people voted.

The institute are saying they helped the party's work together towards getting a coalition sorted, which is infinitely better that sitting around as a hung parliament squabbling if it didn't get sorted.

There now - that wasn't so difficult was it.

Its like saying that some doctors prepared the ground for a major incident and enabled the curing of lots of people. That doesn't mean they created the incident!!!!!!!!!! ...... You tit

stop smoking dope


common sense

26.08.2012 20:37

If there are just TWO factions competing, one will end up with a majority. If there are more that two factions competing then likely as not there will be no majority. Sometimes that can result in a workable minority government but usually means a coaltion government is necessary. There are countries with the parliamentary form of government where there has NEVER been a majority government.

MDN


Who's thick?

27.08.2012 09:09

stop smoking dope

You don't have to do too much thinking and research to work out that rigging has become a part of democracy.

We have postal votes. We had voting station closing on election night so that people could not vote.

Read more:  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/election/article-1271457/General-Election-2010-Postal-vote-fraud-amid-fears-bogus-voters-swing-election.html#ixzz24jgM2Esk
Postal vote fraud: 50 criminal inquiries nationwide amid fears bogus voters could swing election
By SAM GREENHILL and TIM SHIPMAN
UPDATED: 12:51, 4 May 2010
Voter fraud could determine the outcome of the general election as evidence emerges of massive postal vote rigging.

Perhaps, you should stop smoking dope.

Simon


@ stop smoking dope - then maybe they have a crystal ball

27.08.2012 13:13

Institute for Government, Annual Report and Accounts, 5th April 2009, page 8
Third document on this page:
 https://www.lifeinthemix.info/institute-government-annual-reports-accounts-2009-10-11/

States:
---------------------
Other projects begun early in 2009 include work and seminars on Non-Departmental Government Bodies (NDGB’s); minority Government....

Future Plans

Research:
‘Minority Government lessons and implications from the conduct of minority government in the UK nations and overseas. ‘

-------------------

Now, why did they think to do that, prior to this date?

And from the 2010 Annual Report:
---------
Less predictably, Robert Hazelland Akash Paun's report on Making Minority Government work and its discussion of minority and coalition governments was immediately useful.....
A close complement to the Transitions work was a report on Making Minority Government work, by Robert Hazell and Akash Paun. Though regarded by many as a rather obscure topic when first commissioned, by the time of its publication it proved to be an extremely prescient and important document.
-----------
Well gosh, they must have been so surprised when we got a minority government!!.

Here are excerpts from these three annual reports, 2009, 2010, 2011, to make access to these statements easier:

 http://www.scribd.com/doc/103807328/243-Institute-for-Government-Annual-Reports-2009-2010-2011-Excerpts

And if they don't have a crystal ball, I suspect they have access to the 'Oracle' database or similar.





Caz


You're all on the crackpipe

27.08.2012 19:18

The reason we have a coalition is simply because the voting system is a statistical mess.

It's done based on wards rather than individual votes. This allows wards with high population density to become insignificant and wards with low population density significant. It's pretty easy to control the result this way. It effectively terminates the votes of up to 20% of the population.

The voting should always be down to the greatest number of individual votes for a party rather than number of wards won.

If there is < 5% between the two leaders then they should recount and take the mean of the two counts.

That is fair, unbiased and statistically sound.

However, if you think who you vote for makes one little bit of difference, then you are a fool. I will never vote as I do not want to be directly or indirectly responsible for anything that the elected government does.

KermitTheFrog


Fails

27.08.2012 20:04

>> Read more:  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/election/article-1271457/General-Election-
Oh OK... if it is the Daily Mail i guess it must be true............ MASSIVE FAIL!

>> Postal vote fraud: 50 criminal inquiries nationwide amid fears bogus voters could swing
Wow, what a shocking scale considering their are over 60 million people in the UK. I'm absolutely gobsmasked that you think there would be ZERO criminal enquiries regarding postal voting. Did you really think there would be none? That makes you an idealist..... which makes you very naive. However, 50 is hardly going to swing the vote is it.


>> Now, why did they think to do that, prior to this date?

Errrr..... Polls? Just a wild stab in the dark there. You know - that thing that accurately predicts the electron results that they do at every election. Come on - Keep up! This isn't difficult stuff.

>> And if they don't have a crystal ball, I suspect they have access to the 'Oracle' database or similar.
Or polls. Which accurately give the result of an election - every time. Duh!


>> However, if you think who you vote for makes one little bit of difference, then you are a fool. I will never vote as I do not want to be directly or indirectly responsible for anything that the elected government does.

Well, by not voting - you are indirectly responsible. Because your conscious decision not to vote means that one of the parties is going to get one less vote. Sounds like you are trying to bury your head in the sound, but are failing.

stop smoking dope


burying your head :-)

27.08.2012 20:31

"...trying to bury your head in the sound, but are failing"

I'm not surprised. Burying one's head in sound seems tricky indeed!

anonymous


keyboards suck

27.08.2012 21:36

Looks like a mistype to me. Sometimes happens when people type things on keyboards. Probably should say "sand" as this is quite a common English saying.

Ticking Timebomb


'preparing the ground for a hung parliament' exact words in their own report

28.08.2012 13:19


People need to go back and read the actually primary source. which is the Institute for Government Annual Report, March 2011:

 https://www.lifeinthemix.info/institute-government-annual-reports-accounts-2009-10-11/

'Just think of the role that The Institute for Government ....played for preparing the ground for a hung parliament and enabling the creation of a coalition government...’

note the expression 'preparing the ground', from their own annual report.

Unless Andrew Adonis, who quotes this, doesn't know what the Institute for Government is about, since he was then director he should have done.

the missing dots (......) should be . 'and the Constitution Unit' which comes from the original speech, which Andrew Adonis, in this introduction, is quoting from.

The Constitution Unit is : 'The UK's leading research body on constitutional change'

So, the 'Constitution Unit' was also 'preparing the ground for a hung parliament'.

What, sort of 'constitution' are they talking about?






Caz


The Constitution Unit was also 'preparing the ground'

28.08.2012 13:34

People need to go back to the primary source, which is the Institute for Government Annual Report, March 2011:

Quote:

'Just think of the role that The Institute for Government ....played for preparing the ground for a hung parliament and enabling the creation of a coalition government...’

Note the expression 'preparing the ground for a hung parliament'

the dots (...) should read 'and the Constitution Unit' which is from the original speech which Andrew Adonis, in his introduction , is quoting from.

Here:

 http://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/news/latest/institute-takes-top-honours-think-tank-year-awards

So, the Constitution Unit was also 'preparing the ground for a hung parliament'.

The 'Constitution Unit' is: 'The UK's leading research body on constitutional change'

Exactly what sort of 'constitution' are they talking about?






Caz


Stop smoking dope is smoking

28.08.2012 17:50

Stop smoking dope says

Postal vote fraud: 50 criminal inquiries nationwide amid fears bogus voters could swing
Wow, what a shocking scale considering their are over 60 million people in the UK.

We all know that who is elected is dependent on the swing of a minority of seats. What's the point of electoral fraud if not to change the result that the voters would have brought about? Stop Smoking Dope doesn't know because, as we have been told today, dope makes you stupid and he hasn't stopped.

Simon


a fool

28.08.2012 18:09

>> We all know that who is elected is dependent on the swing of a minority of seats. What's the point of electoral fraud if not to change the result that the voters would have brought about? Stop Smoking Dope doesn't know because, as we have been told today, dope makes you stupid and he hasn't stopped.

Because fools do stupid things and are blind to the truth.

There is no point, unless you do it big enough. Trouble is: if you do it big enough, it is easy to detect and you get caught. So either do it itny and get away with, or do big and get caught. Either way, you can't make an effective difference.

You think that because people do it, then it must be because it makes a difference.
You are a fool. Plenty of people do stuff that makes no difference whatsoever and yet are deluded into believing they have. Just read indymedia and you will find many examples.

stop smoking dope


Those behind the 'Constitution Unit' and who funds it:

06.09.2012 22:42


Those behind the 'Constitution Unit' and those who fund it:

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/09/499654.html



Caz


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