The proposal to hold a referendum on changing the electoral system to the Alternative Vote is Labour’s policy, so you would have thought they’d be delighted that the coalition government is going ahead with it, wouldn’t you? The problem is, a) Labour’s commitment to the policy is at least partly tactical (designed to appeal to… Continue reading Electoral Mythbusting 2: spotlight on Labour and boundary changes
Month: July 2010
Comment is freer: It’s AV or nothing
I wrote an article on Comment is Free yesterday about why people need to stop quibbling and start campaigning for AV. Regardless of what might happen in five, 20 or 50 years time, at this precise moment you are faced with a choice between AV and the status quo. There can be no fence-sitters in… Continue reading Comment is freer: It’s AV or nothing
Electoral Mythbusting 1: Spotlight on Iain Dale
I guess we’ll be doing a lot of mythbusting over the next year or so, so I might as well start now. Iain Dale has just issued a couple of posts about the Alternative Vote and Single Transferable Vote which contains assertions that simply can’t be sustained. Let’s go through them. 1. AV “is probably… Continue reading Electoral Mythbusting 1: Spotlight on Iain Dale