Anyone voting in the AV referendum?

[sasguru]

1)How do you know the majority will always be leftish?
2)Other countries have such systems and are less screwed by their governments than the UK

1) Because people are thick
2) like which ones?

[mudskipper]

Have I got this right?

Under the current system, the candidate that most (although not necessarily a majority of) people like best wins.

With AV the candidate that most people hate least wins.

[d000hg]

1) Because people are thick

Hmm, aren't most Americans on the right (slightly)? They are just as thick but are also more capitalistic.

2) like which ones?

Germany? Sweden? Australia?

[d000hg]

Anyway more importantly:

Meanwhile, a polling station in Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire was closed for two hours after two escaped dogs bit four voters.

[shaunbhoy]

Why does that not surprise me? It's in keeping with your general feeble-mindedness that you think PR is a good idea

Well of course, I can see why the very notion of a system whereby 60% of the votes gets you 60% of the clout in policy-making might baffle a statto like you.
You are presumably in favour of retaining a system in which getting less than 40% of the votes can get you a sizeable enough majority to vote through lazy, party-driven, and often targeted and vindictive policy. Policy that generally gets reversed by the following government in very expensive style.
There is a reason why your mind works that way sasguru. It has to do with your IQ being less than 3/5 of the square root of fook-all. Right up there with your charisma count!

[shaunbhoy]

Which people died to give me the freedom not to vote, exactly?

You should get out more. I presume that even in the wilds of County Durham there is the odd War Memorial. That should do for starters.

[NickFitz]

If I can find my card, I'll be voting.

You don't need your card to vote.

[d000hg]

You should get out more. I presume that even in the wilds of County Durham there is the odd War Memorial. That should do for starters.

I didn't ask who died for us to be able to vote. I asked who died to give us the option not to vote. Many democracies in civilised nations have mandatory voting laws.

[shaunbhoy]

I didn't ask who died for us to be able to vote. I asked who died to give us the option not to vote. Many democracies in civilised nations have mandatory voting laws.

Let's not try and over-complicate this for you. What say we just stick to what we have here in Blighty?
Now the fairly straightforward point I have been attempting to drum into that dormant organ of yours, with only limited success it appears, is this.
A great many people have given their lives over the decades to ensure that in this country we have both the right TO vote, if we so wish, or the right NOT TO vote, if we wish. Tis the same people in actual fact. Now....has that particular penny now dropped or should I prepare some sort of Powerpoint Presentation for you?

[d000hg]

You're evading the question. You explicitly stated that we had the right not to vote and people had died for this right. Unless we fought against a nation who would have introduced democracy with mandatory voting, you're just plain wrong.

You can use all the big words and extravagantly over-complicated wording you like, but it doesn't answer my question. That's a politician's trick.

Nobody died to protect my right NOT to vote.