AV its a clusterfuck and could keep the Tories and neo-liberals in power for ever, please join the campaign against it. This is from Joseph Healy.
The suggestion by Andrew Grice in the Independent this morning that David Cameron might be planning to assist the Lib-Dems over electoral reform — just as he did in the Oldham East & Saddleworth by-election — changes the whole nature of the AV referendum debate. Many of those Labour MPs who have backed AV see it as an easy, costless and pretty empty gesture which can be spun as evidence that Labour is modern and its commitment to democracy paramount. They over-estimate the benefits, and overlook the massive risk of long-term Tory-led coalition. They don’t see it as real electoral reform; they don’t notice that it could actually severely undermine real democracy.
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This all assumes that people will vote exactly the same way every year under AV, they won't. After a few elections, it will have made some gradual changes to the political spectrum leading to a little more plurality in some places, though probably a little less in others.
The proposed AV legislation appears to be the preferential voting system we have in Australia. It's not a bad idea, first past the post is generally considered a pretty undemocratic system here; but proportional representation would be light-years ahead (perhaps with preferential voting included?). Had we proportional representation in Australia, the last national election would have seen 10 or 11 Green MPs; we got one. Nuff said!
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