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Mar. 18th, 2004 09:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hathycolAs Bilbo Baggins would put it "I feel... thin. Like butter scraped over too much bread." Now, whilst I certainly don't feel thin, the rest applies perfectly.
Yesterday, I spent an awful lot of time doing mock exam stuff. Timed essay for English (ugh) and then I spent a full afternoon revising politics. Hurrah for Voting Behaviour! I then went home on the bus, and in a brief moment of excitement, we were stopped by the Halton Castle pub by armed police who had blocked the road. As such, we went home a different way.
Trust me, it was interesting at the time.
And then I went home, and trawled through various notes on FPTP, and then I realised that STV, or as I like to call it, The Bane Of My Existance, has no notes. Bleurgh. So I gave up, ate food and went out.
Yes, I went out. But to where? St Annes Parish Social Centre. It wasn't through choice, oh no. You see, I can be rather too nice at times and got bribed into going to the district meeting and representing our Guide unit. Bah. Horrible, boring thing, and I have a scary amount of forms to fill for Crimimal Registration Bureau. Lucky me!
And now I still can't find any notes of STV OR AMS and I have to revise it today. I should go to RADA today or tomorrow, but... I won't. Bad start, I realise, but I'll go extra next week. And Jayne will kill me. But there's nothing I can do about that. Knew I should have scived today. I need to LEARN at least some of it. Just the sonnet. Hmmm. I could do that tonight, surely?
Everything is oh-so-slightly getting on top of me. Must resolve to work harder. Must go and revise now. Must find bloody notes...
Except it seems I'll be spending lunchtime revising. Yay.
~Hathy_Col~
Yesterday, I spent an awful lot of time doing mock exam stuff. Timed essay for English (ugh) and then I spent a full afternoon revising politics. Hurrah for Voting Behaviour! I then went home on the bus, and in a brief moment of excitement, we were stopped by the Halton Castle pub by armed police who had blocked the road. As such, we went home a different way.
Trust me, it was interesting at the time.
And then I went home, and trawled through various notes on FPTP, and then I realised that STV, or as I like to call it, The Bane Of My Existance, has no notes. Bleurgh. So I gave up, ate food and went out.
Yes, I went out. But to where? St Annes Parish Social Centre. It wasn't through choice, oh no. You see, I can be rather too nice at times and got bribed into going to the district meeting and representing our Guide unit. Bah. Horrible, boring thing, and I have a scary amount of forms to fill for Crimimal Registration Bureau. Lucky me!
And now I still can't find any notes of STV OR AMS and I have to revise it today. I should go to RADA today or tomorrow, but... I won't. Bad start, I realise, but I'll go extra next week. And Jayne will kill me. But there's nothing I can do about that. Knew I should have scived today. I need to LEARN at least some of it. Just the sonnet. Hmmm. I could do that tonight, surely?
Everything is oh-so-slightly getting on top of me. Must resolve to work harder. Must go and revise now. Must find bloody notes...
Except it seems I'll be spending lunchtime revising. Yay.
~Hathy_Col~
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Date: 2004-03-18 11:53 am (UTC)Multi-member constituencies. Electorate votes. In order to achieve their quota, each candidate needs to receive votes according to the following formula.
Candidate's votes must exceed the total electorate, divided by the number of candidates plus one, plus one. STV tends to produce coalition government.
AMS - Additional Member System. Just like FPTP up to a certain point, except constituencies are bigger. There are also regional lists, which "top-up" parties being underrepresented with additional members. Electorate have two votes. Can lead to two tiers of MPs and small majorities, but not usually coalition government.
Ta-da.
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Date: 2004-03-18 12:14 pm (UTC)I love you. Have I told you that recently?