* general election 2010
BASC condemns Crimestoppers campaign against law-abiding firearms owners The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has today condemned a new campaign launched in Cumbria by Crimestoppers which encourages the public to make anonymous accusations against licensed firearms holders. “Crimestoppers are inviting people to make secret accusations with a 100 per cent guarantee that the… Read more »
Humanists UK has welcomed a ‘landmark’ recommendation from the Government’s Curriculum and Assessment Review to add Religious Education (RE) to the National Curriculum in England after a thorough review of its content to be conducted by an expert group in the coming months. Humanists UK has advocated for this for many decades and today hailed… Read more »
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By politics.co.uk staff A surprisingly high number of Liberal Democrat members back Nick Clegg’s decision to enter into talks with the Conservatives. But the survey of 350 party members, conducted by Lib Dem Voice, found 80% of respondents believed progress on electoral reform should be a “deal-breaker”. Eighty-nine per cent of members backed Mr Clegg’s… Read more »
By Aled Thomas Thursday’s election would have delivered radically different results if the voting system had been different, new research suggests. The Electoral Reform Society (ERS) has published research which translates votes in the general election to seats under two different voting systems, Alternative Vote (AV) and Single Transferrable Vote (STV). The current system gave… Read more »
