So, many of you wish to see some sort of consequences for failure to pass LCMs should automatic LCMs be introduced. Naturally this impacts the whole electoral system (for both devolved and Westminster elections), and is therefore a fairly large issue.

Basically the next stage in this is out find out what severity of consequences the community would roughly like to see, particularly when LCMs are convention only and not legally required. Furthermore, at Westminster elections would this impact outside of Scotland and Northern Ireland, for example?

I'm going to give you all at least a week for this, in the hope that some consensus can appear, with issues such as the role of the press fairly contentious. I am expecting to after that disregard the unworkable/unrealistic proposals and place the others to various votes, which will clearly help guide your vote in the overall automatic LCM vote.

From my point of view, failure to pass an LCM should generally cause some damage in the relevant devolved nation for the UK Government. In saying that, should it appear that the devolved government is being unreasonable (for example by then going on to propose an almost identical bill in the devolved parliament) then they should clearly be the ones being penalised.

This should probably be done without the press' involvement due to the sporadic nature of press activity but that does not discount press criticism amplifying the damage.

It should also be noted that this would be the first time that the modifiers/elections for Westminster and the devolved nations would be slightly merged,so it should be considered whether or not this is the road which the community wishes to go down, with the three simulations hitherto operating largely independently of each other.