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[webofevil]

Compare and contrast: “Brits oppose £80m voting referendum” and “69% support holding a referendum”. The Sun kindly allows both interpretations on the same page. Presumably this is to allow the reader to make up their own mind rather than being a Foxnewsian exercise in blatantly lying in the face of the evidence that you yourself are presenting. Presumably.

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[fatpie42.livejournal.com]

I thought it was the Lib Dems who wanted it the most? After all, they're the ones who would have the most to gain (to the point where they'd be crazy NOT to want it).

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

The Lib Dems hold that AV is better than FPTP, but they actually *want* a proportional system - they favour Single Transferable Vote in multi-membered consituencies. AV was a bit of a compromise with the Conservatives, who (along with Labour) are over-represented and would lose out massively under any more proportional system.

[fatpie42.livejournal.com]

Oh my mistake. I didn't know what AV was and thought it just meant electoral reform as opposed to being an alternative to proportional representation.

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

STV in multi-membered constituencies is both proportional and preferential; AV is preferential but not proportional. Since FPTP is neither, AV is an improvement (it gets rid of tactical voting, mainly).