Is the public stupid?
I was just reading the Guardian online. They has a report of the latest opinion poll about the referendum. it says that 16% are now against AV!
I found this quite depressing, the no vote literature can through my door and I thought it was clever but mostly misleading, if not downright lies. so why has it been effective.
The main point is that it is simple. One of it claims is that the first past the post is simpler and easily understood. That is true but simplicity is for the simpleton and though it sounds good it is not very good. For example, Simon Wright on the Norwich South election is 2010 despite the fact that over 70% of the electorate voted against him and that was just of those who voted. It might be simple but it gives daft results.
They also claim that only three other countries use the system, yes that is true but most use a more complex system not a simpler system. They also claim the current system is cheaper but I don't know why. We could do what the French do and if no one gets over 50% they have another election, the alternative vote is just a neater way of doing the same thing.
Another statement is that it has done us OK in the past.Is that really true, when we get huge majorities in parliament with parties have mote than 60% of the electorate voting for them. What we have in this country is elected dictatorships with a limited life span. Who voted for the Iraq war, who voted for the poll tax, how many voted for a huge rise in tuition fees. Are we really a democracy.
Note the Tories want bigger constituencies, thus making it more likely that we get MP's forlife with more and more of the population having no effective vote. All I can say wake up to being conned by the Conservatives and the dinosaurs of the labour party. Notice that those from the Labour side are all past it, Lord Reid, an old communist, never known for supporting democracy.
I found this quite depressing, the no vote literature can through my door and I thought it was clever but mostly misleading, if not downright lies. so why has it been effective.
The main point is that it is simple. One of it claims is that the first past the post is simpler and easily understood. That is true but simplicity is for the simpleton and though it sounds good it is not very good. For example, Simon Wright on the Norwich South election is 2010 despite the fact that over 70% of the electorate voted against him and that was just of those who voted. It might be simple but it gives daft results.
They also claim that only three other countries use the system, yes that is true but most use a more complex system not a simpler system. They also claim the current system is cheaper but I don't know why. We could do what the French do and if no one gets over 50% they have another election, the alternative vote is just a neater way of doing the same thing.
Another statement is that it has done us OK in the past.Is that really true, when we get huge majorities in parliament with parties have mote than 60% of the electorate voting for them. What we have in this country is elected dictatorships with a limited life span. Who voted for the Iraq war, who voted for the poll tax, how many voted for a huge rise in tuition fees. Are we really a democracy.
Note the Tories want bigger constituencies, thus making it more likely that we get MP's forlife with more and more of the population having no effective vote. All I can say wake up to being conned by the Conservatives and the dinosaurs of the labour party. Notice that those from the Labour side are all past it, Lord Reid, an old communist, never known for supporting democracy.
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