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By: Voting reform: Are the Tories pretending to be thick or are they really thick?

Voting reform: Are the Tories pretending to be thick or are they really thick? — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:56:04 +0000

[...] reform anyway! And, by the way, the poll was commissioned and published by Politics Home, not Left Foot Foward (Will Straw’s blog), who merely quoted from the poll! And who owns Politics Home? Lord [...]

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uberVU - social comments — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:55:55 +0000

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By: Planters Haven

Planters Haven — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:48:16 +0000

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By: Will Straw

Will Straw — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:49:44 +0000

Check out your cynicism, Billy. I don’t think anyone’s obsessing, just concerned that the current electoral system isn’t fit for purpose (ie giving voters a meaningful way of determining their government).

Also your stats don’t quite add up since according to the PH poll only 29% don’t want a referendum at all (9% don’t know). The clear majority want a referendum.

Will

By: Daisy Benson

Daisy Benson — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:51:55 +0000

RT @David_Stringer:perhaps you should send Dominic Grieve the link. RT: @wdjstraw plenty of will for voting reform http://bit.ly/chKWhs

By: David Stringer

David Stringer — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:50:27 +0000

Thanks WIll, perhaps you should send Dominic Grieve the link. RT: @wdjstraw plenty of will for voting reform http://bit.ly/chKWhs

By: Will Straw

Will Straw — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:34:34 +0000

.@David_Stringer There's plenty of will for voting reform. See today's progressive voices pushing for reform http://bit.ly/chKWhs

By: Billy Blofeld

Billy Blofeld — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:47:20 +0000

So another way of writing those figures you quote is:

- 37% of voters don’t want a referendum at all

- 80% don’t want a referendum in the terms the government has laid out

- 61% either don’t want or aren’t interested in AV

What is “progressive” about obsessing over policy wonk details like AV?

Reform the majority of government services and make them accountable “in-real time” to the people that use them on a daily basis. Who could give a monkeys about the mechanism that we use to kick out tired and corrupt governments every 5 years?

By: Gavin Hayes

Gavin Hayes — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:48:27 +0000

Anticipating the electoral reform vote: http://www.leftfootforward.org/2010/02/anticipating-the-electoral-reform-vote/