Louis Posted May 4, 2011 Report Share Posted May 4, 2011 That is the question.. http://www.bbc.co.uk...litics-11243595 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted May 4, 2011 Report Share Posted May 4, 2011 missing an option Louis: "couldnt care less" . Voting is a waste of time, whichever politician gets in they will be a lying worthless excuse of oxygen use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted May 4, 2011 Report Share Posted May 4, 2011 (edited) sorry matt.....but couldnt care less doesnt help or change anything,to sit back and not vote just enables people to criticise all parties. so what do you do if you dont like any of them? Ive never voted because ive never found a party worth voting for. Edited May 4, 2011 by Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romey 1878 Posted May 4, 2011 Report Share Posted May 4, 2011 I'll be voting no. AV is a load of shite, if PR was on the table then I'd vote yes to that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted May 4, 2011 Report Share Posted May 4, 2011 (edited) it is your option matt not to vote....but ive been brought up labour and im sure most of my family are the same theres no way i could vote for anyone else especially now after what the libs have done siding with the cons,the conservatives destroyed industrys in this country the mining communitys worst of all...sorry if iwent on a bit. my family is too mate, and I agree with all you have said. But labour screwed up (not as bad as Cons have in the past) and, at the end of it all, I just dont trust any of them. Edited May 4, 2011 by Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowensda Posted May 4, 2011 Report Share Posted May 4, 2011 English Democrats for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted May 4, 2011 Report Share Posted May 4, 2011 I'll be voting no. AV is a load of shite, if PR was on the table then I'd vote yes to that. Pretty much this, except I'll be voting yes...AV is shite but FPTP is worse. Hopefully (ignoring the fact that the no camp will win at a stroll) change would have led to more change...as it is we'll be stuck with the totally crap system we've got for the next century . I'm fifty-one, I've voted at every election (local and national) that I've been able too since I was eighteen and my vote has never counted. Not right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louis Posted May 4, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2011 I'm with Mike. The way I see it is that this will be the only referendum for many years on the procedure. FPTP isn't great, I think AV is slightly better than it, but not ideal. I see AV as a baby step in the right direction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greggles Posted May 4, 2011 Report Share Posted May 4, 2011 AV seems to be obviously a fairer system to me, dont see why you wouldnt vote yes tbh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian C Posted May 4, 2011 Report Share Posted May 4, 2011 Not exactly a big leap from AV to STV though. If the No side succeed you won't have another referendum from 50 years. If AV succeeds then a bit of momentum might build up. *happily lives in a country that twice rejected Tory-esque dominant party's proposals to abolish PR-STV in favour of FPTP* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted May 4, 2011 Report Share Posted May 4, 2011 AV seems to be obviously a fairer system to me, dont see why you wouldnt vote yes tbh. It is obviously fairer.....and I'm pretty sure at any other time it would have been voted in with very little problem. The trouble is that the idea of coalition government has been brought into disrepute by the current situation (more by the media coverage of it than the reality imo). And die hard Labour/Tory voters (more particularly Tory) will never vote for it....it'd be like Turkeys voting for Christmas. FPTP was just about OK historically when we effectively had a two party system and about 90% of voters went for one or the other....but now only about (I think) 64% of voters are daft enough to vote for them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian C Posted May 4, 2011 Report Share Posted May 4, 2011 I like coalition governments. The best Irish governments have been coalitions, them being the first Inter-Party government and the 1990's Rainbow Coalition. Not including Fianna Fail-led Governments as coalitions as they are usually FF minorities with support from Independents/small FF-breakaway parties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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