AV Referendum

[Waldorf]

How will you be voting?

I think any system that makes it more likely that the Liberal Democrats will always have seats around the cabinet table, must be avoided!

I will be voting NO!

[TheFaQQer]

Can I rank my answers in order of preference?

[TheFaQQer]

How will you be voting?

I think any system that makes it more likely that the Liberal Democrats will always have seats around the cabinet table, must be avoided!

I will be voting NO!

I'm yet to be convinced that it would make any meaningful change to the results.

If AV had been in place last year, the result would have been the same - no overall majority. It might have made a minor difference, but nothing too major. PR, on the other hand, would have made a significant difference to the result.

I keep hearing the argument that it will result in more hung parliaments, but again, I'm not convinced. Australia has used AV for a long time and has just delivered it's first coalition government in years.

The main problem is that we just aren't used to the idea of a coalition, and rush into making quick deals because that is what the public expects. If there had been longer than a couple of days, then there is no way that the LDs would have shafted themselves so royally on tuition fees - they would have been able to think through exactly what was going on and then make a decision. If the likelihood of a coalition is increased, then we might actually see some change in the manifesto's that the parties produce - these are the things that we won't move on, and these are the things that we want to do, but can be flexible on. At least that way, we might be able to vote for what we get - at the moment, this current government is running on a platform of change that no-one voted for.

[Ignis Fatuus]

How will you be voting?

I think any system that makes it more likely that the Liberal Democrats will always have seats around the cabinet table, must be avoided!

I will be voting NO!

I think that it is wrong to choose a voting system for a democracy based on whether you will like the result of the vote!

[SueEllen]

How will you be voting?

I think any system that makes it more likely that the Liberal Democrats will always have seats around the cabinet table, must be avoided!

I will be voting NO!

The London Mayoral elections use AV and the result has been Labour then Conservative.

Plus Brighton and Hove elected a Green MP under the current system. She got about 24% of the vote. Under PR she probably would have not have been elected.

So it doesn't necessarily mean that Lib Dems will get more seats.

[doodab]

Yeah. We should certainly keep the two parties taking turns to **** it up system.

Cos Labour and the Tories never **** anything up ever.

[TimberWolf]

Is this a 'first past the post' poll?

[AtW]

Major fail on the polling front.

Where's the flipping AndyW option?

No poll is complete (or valid) without one.

Aye.

And it was me who used that option first to mean "none of the above" or "other" option

Anyway, the AV won't will fail to change the system and frankly I don't think having AV would help - just look at Nu Liebor party who used something close to AV vote and ended up with the wrong brother being their "leader".

[amcdonald]

Is this a 'first past the post' poll?

Oh gawd not another football thread

[GreenLabel]

Anyway, the AV won't will fail to change the system

Um, what?