A BLOG
A blog: " De Borda abroad." From Belfast to Beijing and beyond... and back. Starting in Vienna with the TEDx talk, I go by bus and/or train for more debates in Belgrade, Sarajevo, Istanbul, Tbilisi, Yerevan and Tehran, before flying - sorry about that - to Urumqi in Xīnjiāng, followed by more debates in Beijing, Tianjin, Hong Kong and Taiwan... but not in Pyongyang. Then back via Mongolia (where I was an election observer last year) and Moscow (where I worked in the '80s).
I have my little fold-up Brompton with me - surely the best way of exploring any new city! So I fly hardly at all; I go by train, boat or bus if possible, and then cycle wherever in each new venue; and all with just one plastic water bottle... or that was the intention!
The story is on: https://debordaabroad.wordpress.com/2017/09/07/de-borda-abroad/
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The director alongside the statue of Jean-Charles de Borda, capitaine et savant, in l’École Navale in Brest, 24.9.2010. Photo by Gwenaelle Bichelot.
Here's the YouTube, the PowerPoint, and the text of the speech (more or less).
Tuesday, November 27, 2018 openDemocracy has just publihsed:
https://opendemocracy.net/uk/peter-emerson/for-people-to-have-their-say-on-brexit-how-best-can-multi-option-conundrum-be-resol
and see 2018-16, 2018-14, etc.
Thursday, November 22, 2018 Evan Davies gave de Borda an interview on his PM programme on Mon 12th Nov. It starts at minute 32.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00013nw
See also 2018-14 and 2017-5
Friday, October 26, 2018 Dubin City University has one article: http://dcubrexitinstitute.eu/2018/10/a-better-measure-of-the-will-of-the-people/
and Queen's University Belfast has another: http://qpol.qub.ac.uk/brexit-a-meaningful-vote/
Monday, August 20, 2018 http://qpol.qub.ac.uk/brexit-a-meaningful-vote/ (See 2018-12, -11, -7, -2, 2017-14, -1, 2016-12, -9 and especially 2016-1, in which we predicted the result of the June 2016 Brexit nonsense.)
Monday, August 6, 2018 Infacts has just published, "There's more than one way to count a three-way People's Vote." It’s on: https://infacts.org/theres-more-than-one-way-to-count-a-three-way-peoples-vote/
Monday, July 16, 2018 A review, University College London, into the conduct of referendums, calls for multi-option ballots. Because of our submission? Maybe.
And it follows on from, and supports, Ireland's Citizens' Assembly. See 2018-3.
Tuesday, July 10, 2018 So Boris Johnson resigns. But why? Hence our latest press release, No 22, top-right hand corner of the home page, calling for the matrix vote.
Sunday, June 24, 2018 Please sign the petition for a people's vote: www.peoples-vote.uk/petition
23rd June, 100,000 in London marched for a people's vote. Brexit was divisive, not least because the ballot was binary: for-or-against, yes-or-no, remain-or-leave? To overcome the division, it would be wise to use an inclusive multi-option vote. The "people's vote" should be everybody's vote, at least something like: remain, Theresa May's negotiated option, or the WTO?
"Our campaign must be diverse," Caroline Lucas. "I want to work with people... from other parties," Sir Vince Cable. In other words, the UK needs (PR in elections and) pluralism in decision-making. The latter means multi-option voting, the most accurate form of which is a preferential points system, the MBC.
Indeed, if the UK had PR, we would not now be in this mess anyway. Secondly, if the 2011 referendum had been multi-optional, (like the New Zealand poll of 1992), we would probably now have PR. And thirdly, if the Brexit ballot had been multi-optional - something like the EU, EEA or WTO? - the EU option would probably have won. (See also 2018-7, 2018-2, 2017-14, 2017-1, 2016-12, 2016-9 and especially 2016-1, in which we predicted the result of the June 2016 Brexit nonsense.)
Monday, June 4, 2018 I went there for 10 days on 6th June, and Kim Jong-un went to see Donald Trump in Singapore. Mine was a package tour, of course, and there's more on the blog.
