Steven Green

@steven-t-green

Husband, proud father and grandfather. Irish EU citizen (and British). ex-Labour. Chartered engineer. Auditor. IT analyst.

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Steven Green@steven-t-green· 24d

We all knew a local Ena Sharples but it was astonishing to see her portrayed so accurately by Violet Carson

Violet Carson pictured in character as Ena Sharples of Coronation Street

Steven Green@steven-t-green· 25d

I once spent a week in a tent with John Savident so didn't reconise him when he appeared on Coronation Street 😆

Actor John Savident pictured in his role of Fred Ellot the butcher in Coronation Street

Steven Green@steven-t-green· 27d

Whole audiences in tears during showing of Love Story (1970)

poster for Love Story film with the quote "love means never having to say you're sorry .."

Steven Green@steven-t-green· 27d

Ee by gum, tha's askin' fer trouble wi' folk like us as live up north o' London

andy capp by a tree with an andy loves andy carving

Steven Green@steven-t-green· 29d

This is where I post from

red post box in main square of Bramhope Village near Leeds - it is wearing a knitted cap featuring mustrooms, toadstools and a hen

Steven Green@steven-t-green· Jun 30

Date yourself with a snap of your first ever computer

Steven Green@steven-t-green· Jun 13

In my fevered imagination, UK joins the € but overprints the word "pound" on all its Euro banknotes using a John Bull Printing Outfit 😆

quintessential British 1950s printing kit using rubber letters and numbers placed in a frame and pressed against an inkpad - branded John Bull who has a British Bulldog by his side,

Steven Green@steven-t-green· Jun 13

@yougov.co.uk Today's survey doesn't work It stops working here - where there is a duplication of response options

Steven Green@steven-t-green· Jun 8

If "that is the point" then beware. Because the "point" isn't true. AV may create a different result, It may create a result you prefer. But AV does NOT deliver the candidates the public "prefers". If it did, it would be a proportional system. And it isn't a proportional system. (ERS view below).

The Alternative Vote (AV) system was put to a nationwide referendum in 2011. AV is not a proportional electoral system, but rather a majoritarian system like FPTP based upon ranked choices in single-member constituencies. Under AV voters rank their preferred candidates 1, 2, 3 and so on. If a candidate wins more than 50% of first preferences they are elected, but if not then the worst performing candidate is eliminated and their votes redistributed to the second-choice candidates. This process carries on until a candidate receives more than 50% of the vote. Australia is the best-known example of AV in current use.

The ERS supported the AV referendum in 2011 on the basis that the system is an improvement on FPTP. However, whilst this system helps reduce inequities in the system (by, for instance, making sure that MPs have more than 50% of their voters’ support and hence a much broader base in the constituency), AV is not a proportional system and can, in fact, produce even more disproportionate outcomes than FPTP.

Indeed, in this case, our projections show the Conservative Party’s majority under AV would have doubled from 12 to 24.

Steven Green@steven-t-green· Jun 6

A hundred citizens are electing one of three candidates. The citizens’ preferences can be described as follows:
• 36 voters rank candidate C top, then candidate A second and candidate B as worst choice.
• 34 citizens rank candidate B top, then candidate A second and candidate C as worst choice; and
• 30 citizens rank candidate A top, then candidate B second and again candidate C as worst choice.

If we write > to mean ‘is preferred to’, then we can summarize the preferences of our electorate as follows:
for 36 citizens: C > A > B
for 34 citizens: B > A > C
for 30 citizens: A > B > C

Assuming that all citizens vote sincerely (i.e. follow their own top preference), then FPTP elects candidate C and AV elects candidate B.
The risks of FPTP are highlighted in this example: candidate C is the candidate ranked last by almost two thirds of citizens here, and this majority would prefer either candidate A or candidate B over the actual FPTP winner.
However, we can also see in this case how candidate B selected under AV does not have unequivocal majority support. In a ‘pairwise’ straight head-to-head choice between A and B – that is, if it was a run-off contest between these two candidates – then A gets 66 votes and B only 34. Thus a clear majority of voters prefer A to B.

Steven Green@steven-t-green· Jun 6

The 2015 election under AV would have resulted in a Cameron government with a bigger majority than under FPTP - still primed to call the referendum.

Steven Green@steven-t-green· Jun 6

To be fair to him, the BBC was airing the Black and White Minstrel Show as late as 1978.

Steven Green@steven-t-green· May 10

Buen días.

Steven Green@steven-t-green· Apr 17

It doesn't work like that. Backing for individual decisions doesn't create a positive view of Starmer. He is completely crap at politics. And weak as a Prime Minister. I can't think of a weaker Labour Prime Minister. Maybe Brown gets close.

Steven Green@steven-t-green· Apr 5

Golly! Paddington is on the Robertson's Golden Shred label but not the word "Marmalade". How un-British.

A jar of Robertson's Golden Shred that has an image of Paddington Bear but no mention of the dreaded word "Marmalade"

Steven Green@steven-t-green· Mar 27

Steven Green@steven-t-green· Mar 14

If you can see this post an archer

Steven Green@steven-t-green· Mar 14

Reminds me of the criticism of Keir Hardy turning up to Parliament and refusing to wear a frock coat but instead in normal smart worker clothes.

Keir Hardy dressed for Parliament in smart workers clothes

Steven Green@steven-t-green· Mar 13

USA lack of planning/strategy/purpose means possibly forever

Steven Green@steven-t-green· Mar 12

Haircut? No cut at all.

Steven Green@steven-t-green· Mar 12

Steven Green@steven-t-green· Feb 26

The Trolley-Truck daughter of Trolley-Bus

two early 20th century trolly buses powered by overhead electricity cables

Steven Green@steven-t-green· Feb 21

Sales Brochure with definitions of individual products plus selling messages and accompanied by a list of fees. You are stuck in the 1960s with 1930s attitudes.

Steven Green@steven-t-green· Feb 10

post a banger that isn't in English

Steven Green@steven-t-green· Feb 9

Electoral Commission guidance is clear. It could be your best bet is to provide a statement to the other political parties.

Steven Green@steven-t-green· Feb 7

Still fundraising. Almost got enough for a museum in a caravan on the Lincolnshire coast.

Chart showing income and expenditure of the Museum of Brexit charity for 4 years. Average income under £24,00 per annum. Average expenditure almost £7000 pa

Steven Green@steven-t-green· Jan 28

I'll stay with Aldi thanks - the 200g jar costs less than a single Oat Latte and the coffee tastes good too.

Jar of cheap but good Gold Roast instant coffee from Aldi

Steven Green@steven-t-green· Jan 18

I bring reinforcements

the Green Giant, clad in a suit of leaves, stands proud against a backdrop of a green agricultural valley

Steven Green@steven-t-green· Jan 15

Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers

Steven Green@steven-t-green· Dec 24

I once spent a summer in Málaga reading all Daniel Hannan's books. His Brexit is going well 🙄