Arbuthnott Commission Arbuthnott Commission The Arbuthnott Commission on Boundary Differences and Voting Systems was set up in July 2004 by Alistair Darling, then Secretary of State for Scotland, under the chairmanship of Sir John Arbuthnott, to examine various consequences of having four different electoral systems in Scotland, and different boundaries for constituencies of the House of Commons (Parliament of the United Kingdom, at Westminster) and the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). In 2004, Scotland had three different electoral systems: plurality (first past the post) for Westminster and local government elections, and two different systems of proportional representation (PR) for European Parliament and Scottish Parliament
Peter Bull Bull was also the first actor to portray Pozzo in the English-language version of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting For Godot" when it opened on 3 August 1955. Bull's performance as the Soviet Ambassador, Alexi de Sadesky, in "Dr Strangelove" (1964) is probably the best known of his many film and TV appearances. He was cast as Thwackum, one of Blifil's two tutors, in the 1963 film "Tom Jones". (The other tutor, Square, of contrasting build and character, was played by John Moffatt.) In the 1970s, he ran a small shop just off Notting Hill Gate, selling zodiac-related items. Bull wrote a