"Tim Streater" wrote in message
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It also means you'll be voting "No" to AV, since proportional
representation is a recipe for continuous coalition government.

The AV is *not* proportional representation.
No lists are involved.
You vote for and elect an MP that stands in your ward.
Your vote does not count towards any other ward.
Not yet anyway.

The AV does allow for tactical voting without too much worry that you will
accidently elect the wrong candidate.

Say there is a con, a lib and a NF candidate.
You can vote for the con with the lib as second.
There is little chance the NF would get in unless a large number of people
actually voted NF.
Unlike now where you can split the vote and let some minor party in.

It also works the other way and people can vote for a minority candidate
without too much fear of letting nulabour back in by listing the cons or
libs as second and third.

And, as we see in the Israeli case, where they use the same list system we
have for MEPs, any government is hostage to extremist parties with one or
two seats (in Israel, it's the extreme religious parties) and because it's
the list system you can't get rid of the ****ers!

--
Tim

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