Drainy
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I said AV Top up is better. AV in practice only has a 5% 'second place win' record in Australia. Candidates have to be selected by more than 50% of their constituents.. so majority rules, ok? Try thinking outside the box.No AV is shite it lets the 2nd or 3rd position win.
The Lib Dems are desperate for AV so they can play king maker every election.
No party will ever have over 50% votes unless it's a two horse race.
AV is a way of fudging a contest until certain groups get what they want.
It the Lib dems want to stand a chance then they should make themselves more electable.
Lib Dems do want a more proportional system because proportionality is a good representation of representation in a voting system. You have fallen into the trap of thinking that its the Lib Dems that came up with AV for Britain... http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons/lib/research/rp98/rp98-112.pdf Have a read of this, it gives a good suggestion of what a good voting system in the UK would look like.
And why do you think the Tories are so against it?
On the question of electability of the Lib Dems, I know plenty of people who wanted to vote for them but were scared that the tories would get it.. not suggesting that they could win, but fear of the other side does suppress Lib Dem vote traditionally.