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ERS analysis: "We now have a picture of where UKIP may make its first breakthroughs. It won the popular vote in the equivalents of nine parliamentary seats: Boston and Skegness, Bognor Regis and Littlehampton, Worthing East and Shoreham, Great Yarmouth, Forest of Dean, Aylesbury and Camborne and Redruth."
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I must actually read that document, though for all (some) people talk a lot about reforming the Seanad rather than abolishing it, I suspect that in real life the only two choices are abolish or leave as it is. I suspect (other) people are being over-hasty in concluding that abolition is the best thing to do, but I don’t think that either outcome will bring Irish democracy closer to its end.
One thing I suspect, though, is that any change to the electorate for the Seanad would probably mean that none of the university Senators or Taoiseach’s nominees would be finding their way back to the reformed upper house.