Read A Town Called Alice & On The Beach by Nevil Shute last year. Great books. Huge bestsellers.Completely forgotten writer in loads of ways
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Replying to @PatrickFreyne1
Absolutely right. Unfortunately crazily right-wing. One novel advocates a system whereby votes only go to adequately qualified people.
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Replying to @DonaldClarke63 @PatrickFreyne1
actually I think he advocated that everybody would have a vote, but that people with property, or education etc would have extra votes....
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Replying to @6to5against @PatrickFreyne1
Yes. That's a more accurate summary.
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He got that idea from JS Mill's 'On Representative Government'. Mill was a curious character - a 'hang 'em & flog 'em' on the Bench.
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Replying to @catsnewwhisker @DonaldClarke63 and
@ClarkeMicah is a fan of that system which, added to other reasons, wd not work for reasons explained by Bertrand Russell.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @catsnewwhisker @DonaldClarke63 and
Existing system works beautifully, eh? Universal suffrage destroying law and liberty in Turkey and Poland as we speak.
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Replying to @ClarkeMicah @catsnewwhisker and
I can't think of any examples where reducing suffrage has gone well or led to anything other than graft
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Replying to @PatrickFreyne1 @ClarkeMicah and
I can't think of any examples where reducing suffrage has been attempted... would be interested to hear of any.
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Replying to @anomalyuk @ClarkeMicah and
It was attempted and carried out in a lot of places in the middle of the last century
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Really? Other than by abolishing elections altogether?
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