Why Do Labour Want to Change the Voting System?
Well lets ask TB's favourite thumb Eric shall we?
Think that clears everything up.
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
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Labour want to sound like they want to change the voting system for various reasons:
1: They might get a few LD/Labour undecideds back into their column in the polls (especially in the ones with stupidly small samples). This will give an illusion of anti-tory momentum, which if successful Labour could build on.
2: They hope it will make them sound sorta reasonable and sorta non-partisan. This is the exact opposite of the truth and its all entirely partisan.
3: Labour hopes it will mess up the LDs in LD/Labour marginals. It allows Labour to say on the doorstep, 'Yeah we do that reform stuff too, stick with us.'
4: It is a smoke and mirrors tactic to draw attention away from the ridiculous way the boundaries are drawn for this election.
This AV crap would empower the anti-democratic activities of the satirically named Liberal "Democrats" even more than FPTP.
The Lib-Lab tactical voting would allow them to vote against the Conservatives with the candidate most likely to defeat them, and still support their own party with a preferential position.
I trust Clegg isn't naive enough to repeat the humiliating political miscalculations of Pantsdown by letting promises of a return to electoral relevance make him ally himself with the crapulent cyclops.
I'd have thought Pickles would be in favour of AV - he's always seemed keen on having his portion topped up.