To AV or not to AV?
May 4, 2011
Well I’m not enamoured with our current first past the post system, but I don’t believe AV is the way forward to create a fairer system. If we were voting for PR that would be a totally different matter; I’ve been in favour of Proportional Representation for a long time.
In fact, if Labour had agreed to hold a referendum on PR with in a year when they were in post election negotiations with the Lib Dems, we’d be debating how well the Labour/Lib Dem coalition government were doing and I’d be voting for PR tomorrow.
The Tories would never have got their party members to accept a referendum on PR so agreeing to a vote on AV was the compromise sop to the Lib Dems in the hope of building up Cleggs standing in the country.
The odds are stacked against the yes campaigners, particularly if as expected, it’s a low turn out tomorrow. There certainly won’t be another referendum on changing the voting system before the next election that’s for sure.
