There are lots of ways the voting system could be improved. Back in the days of the alternative vote campaign I pointed to all and sundry that it enabled the Tories to put up a pro and anti EU candidate in the same constituency, the vote would NOT be split because at most one would be eliminated in any round and all votes would go to the other. Solved: the Tories long term EU internal conflict, no need for a referendum and if the people wanted to leave the EU the ordinary election mechanism would arrange it; if not it wouldn't. And nothing hanging on dodgy promises - or no more than a normal election anyway.

Still, it meant the centre didn't keep control of the power (pause for suppressed laughter) so the 'against' campaign decided to go with "it's all too complicated". The 'for' compaign was so incoherent I am not sure what message they were trying for. And so we end up here....