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Rainforests and Elections...
27 Sep 2011 08:23 pmIt is general election time here on the small island. We elect our new government every five years - none of the guessing games played by UK politicians to decide when to hold the election. Generally we have no political parties - although there is a Liberal Vannin Party set up by one of our local MHKs (Members of the House of Keys)- but no-one takes much notice of it as a political entity, to be honest. Our politicians are all basically independents.
And we have a mixture of single and multi-seat constituencies, depending on the population of the area. Our original political divisions were the sheadings - and they still have one MHK each, but the centres of population are now the towns and villages where the multi-seat constituencies level out the proportions more or less.
Our village has a big population and so we have three MHKs - we all vote for all three rather than splitting it up into little bits. Weird to some, but it works for us.
What is the relationship between this and pictures of rainforests? Not much - except that, taking such things seriously, D-d and her friend have gone to the Requisition Meeting which all the candidates for our constituency are legally bound to attend, to find out more about what the candidates think and what they stand for.
I'm not there... I've been to one before, I just read everyone's manifesto. D-d's friend says D-d can decide who are the best three of the six and she'll just vote for them, too!
But as we had an quick, early dinner (pasta -10 minutes to cook!) to enable them to go, I've had time to upload some more of D-d's Australia pictures. These are all of the rainforest of the Tweed Valley in New South Wales.
( click for lots of trees... )
And we have a mixture of single and multi-seat constituencies, depending on the population of the area. Our original political divisions were the sheadings - and they still have one MHK each, but the centres of population are now the towns and villages where the multi-seat constituencies level out the proportions more or less.
Our village has a big population and so we have three MHKs - we all vote for all three rather than splitting it up into little bits. Weird to some, but it works for us.
What is the relationship between this and pictures of rainforests? Not much - except that, taking such things seriously, D-d and her friend have gone to the Requisition Meeting which all the candidates for our constituency are legally bound to attend, to find out more about what the candidates think and what they stand for.
I'm not there... I've been to one before, I just read everyone's manifesto. D-d's friend says D-d can decide who are the best three of the six and she'll just vote for them, too!
But as we had an quick, early dinner (pasta -10 minutes to cook!) to enable them to go, I've had time to upload some more of D-d's Australia pictures. These are all of the rainforest of the Tweed Valley in New South Wales.
( click for lots of trees... )
