Interesting Links for 10-08-2012

[andrewducker]

• How does the Corby by-election change the UK's electoral mathematics?
  (tags: elections coalition uk )
• 1300 extreme porn convictions in the last year. Rather more than the original estimate of _30_
  (tags: viaCipherGoth porn uk law freespeech )
• Spotify, Pandora, Streaming Music Make Up 25 Percent of Warner Digital's revenue
  (tags: music spotify

Comments

[danieldwilliam]

I hadn’t realised that the electoral maths was quite as tight the Lib Dem Voice article has it and I’d assumed (partly in despair) that it wouldn’t move significantly during the Parliament

[andrewducker]

Yes. As various people point out in the comments, that alliance would be far too hard to hold together. Another five seats...

[danieldwilliam]

Yeah - It’s pretty much the Not Tory Alliance and I don’t quite see how it could actually do anything other than not be a Tory government.

A vote of no confidence would be fun.

I wonder what the SNP make of it all. I wonder if they’d prefer to be fighting the referendum with a Tory government in Westminster or a really weak Lib-Lab-Rainbow pact.

[andrewducker]

Ideally, they'd be fighting a BNP/UKIP alliance.

[danieldwilliam]

Jings - the very idea.

[philmophlegm]

The concept of Ed Balls fixing the economy with New Keynesian economics seems akin to the captain of the Titanic trying to prevent his ship sinking by sailing into another iceberg. It might raise the bow in the short term, but ultimately it will only make a bigger hole...

[danieldwilliam]

I’m genuinely unsure on the question of whether Kenynianist stimulus would be desirable or not