The Wardman Wire

The Thunderdragon writes about Democracy

The people of Switzerland have voted, democratically, to ban the building of minarets. More than 57% of voters and 22 of the 26 Swiss cantons voted in favour of the ban, in defiance of the government (although in support of the largest party in parliament) as “a vote against minarets as symbols of Islamic power.”
Democratically, [...]

The Irish have, at the second time of asking, voted Yes to the Lisbon Treaty. One must ask, however, why shouldn’t there be a third referendum and “best of three” rule applied?
A referendum is supposed to be a one-off event – you ask the question, people vote, and the answer comes back in which should [...]

Unlike a lot of Tory bloggers – and apparently Tory members – I think that it is a bad thing that Nigel Farage has chosen to challenge Speaker John Bercow at the general election. If he wanted an election fight, he should have picked a constituency where all the parties could campaign and try and [...]

Jack Straw’s new proposals for continuing to reform of the House of Lords (just a decade after starting it!) bear an extremely marked similarity to those I have made on my blog – as far back as 2006!
The difference is that I am far more certain of what we actually need to do. We must [...]