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Thread #137224   Message #3143353
Posted By: Musket
27-Apr-11 - 09:12 AM
Thread Name: BS: Any thoughts on AV? (Alternative Vote)
Subject: RE: BS: Any thoughts on AV?
Thought about this again.

For much longer.

Still not convinced the present system is any worse than what is up for offer here.

Not often I agree with Nick Clegg, but it is a miserable little compromise. Pity he no longer thinks that but there again, he seems to change his views so much that there is little point hanging on his arguments.

Yes, first past the post favours the establishment but you know what? Doesn't matter, 'cos you get the government anyway. We are having this referendum (under first past the post if you think about it) not because it is needed to fix a broken system but because it was thrown as a bauble by a cynical Tory party to an opportunistic Lib Dem party.

The point of the exercise was to form a government for 2010 till 2015 not radically alter politics forever. The only reason I can see for voting for it would be to destabilise Cameron, and as GDP is recovering, retail sales are up and the rhetoric around decimating the public sector is being watered down daily, why bother? Labour aren't ready to be handed power back yet.

Some people think this is to do with voting reform rather than day to day politics and horse trading. No reason to get excited, calm down and get on with handling life as best you can.