Did we already discuss the proposed voting law changes?

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sweetandsour replied

11 February 2010, 08:17
Originally posted by TonyEnglish View Post

Surely the alternative vote is going to go to the liberals more than anybodyelse. A Labour voter is not going to have a Tory alternative and a Tory voter is not going to have a Labour one.

Funny how Brown wants to change the voting system just when it looks like he might be turfed out. I didn't hear many calls for this straight after 1997

Extract from the Labour 1997 manifesto:

We are committed to a referendum on the voting system for the House of Commons. An independent commission on voting systems will be appointed early to recommend a proportional alternative to the first-past-the-post system.

Whatever happened to that pledge?
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Tarquin Farquhar replied

11 February 2010, 08:13
Originally posted by TonyEnglish View Post

Surely the alternative vote is going to go to the liberals more than anybodyelse. A Labour voter is not going to have a Tory alternative and a Tory voter is not going to have a Labour one.

Funny how Brown wants to change the voting system just when it looks like he might be turfed out. I didn't hear many calls for this straight after 1997

Very old British habit. Look at when we gave the countries of the Empire a vote: when we left, not before.
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BoredBloke replied

11 February 2010, 08:06
Surely the alternative vote is going to go to the liberals more than anybodyelse. A Labour voter is not going to have a Tory alternative and a Tory voter is not going to have a Labour one.

Funny how Brown wants to change the voting system just when it looks like he might be turfed out. I didn't hear many calls for this straight after 1997
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d000hg started a topic Did we already discuss the proposed voting law changes?

11 February 2010, 07:56
Did we already discuss the proposed voting law changes?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8505255.stm

MPs have backed government plans to hold a UK-wide referendum on changing the voting system next year.

Voters would be asked if they wanted to keep "first past the post" or switch to the "alternative vote", which ranks candidates in order of preference.

But it is not certain the bill will become law before Parliament is dissolved ahead of the election.

I didn't see a thread, was there one? If not, does anyone care?
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