On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 02:10:21 -0700 (PDT), "Man at B&Q"
wrote:

On Apr 14, 4:17*pm, Mark
wrote:
On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 07:08:57 -0700 (PDT), "Man at B&Q"



wrote:
On Apr 14, 12:41 pm, Tim Streater wrote:
In article ,

Mark wrote:
On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:17:07 +0100, Tim Streater
wrote:

In article ,
Mark wrote:

On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:07:18 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

Your feeling of helplessness only arises because you have bought into
the socialism model of life: You want the government to change things
for you.

No. I want governments to do what people want them to do.

And what is that? I want the Govt to give me 50 million quid, a mansion
with a 1000 acre estate and coterie of servants, and a no-fly zone above
it. And yet, strangely, they don't. Should I therefore vote for the
other lot - or someone that'd promise to fulfil my wants?

Don't be silly. I want governments to fulfill their promises that
they made before being elected and a way of getting rid of them more
easily if they don't.

Good. So that means you don't want coalitions, because when parties
enter into coalition discussions, and make an agreement, each has to
ditch some policies and accept some of their opponents' policies, in
order for an agreement to be reached. Which also means that the eventual
manifesto, the agreement between coalition partners, is one that no-one
has had a chance to vote on.

It also means you'll be voting "No" to AV, since proportional
representation

AV is not PR. I'll be voting "no" but not for that reason.

Why?

I consider the whole thing a diversion, a sop to the lib-dems and a
complete and utter waste of time and money. Most people seem to agree
it will not make any difference to the result in the majority of
cases, so why bother?

I disagree. By allowing people to vote for multiple candidates (if
they so wish) it would eliminate tactical voting. It would also mean,
that if you don't vote for the winner, that your vote is not totally
wasted. Hopefully this will encourage more people to to vote make MPs
more accountable.

Until we change our ridiculously outdated electoral system I see no
chance that we will get a decent government.
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