Wednesday 4 May 2011

Yes AV or No AV, That is the Question

If your in the UK,  you will know what I'm talking about, if your not in the UK, then I'm talking about the Alternative Vote, or AV for short. Tomorrow (5th May 2011), ever voter in the UK gets to choose whether we change a centuries old voting method aka First Past The Post.
And its really fecking confusing!

Not AV itself, that's easy to understand, its what should I vote for, that's what this post is for, sort of.

First we have, The First Past The Post voting system, the system that we have used for hundreds, if not thousands of years and has worked for just as long. Now, it has its problems, just look at the last General Election in the UK, hung parliament, David 'Call me Dave' Cameron and his Tories managed to get in with Nick 'LapDog' Clegg and his Liberal Democrat propping up there votes. All that because no one got enough votes.
With that example, the Lib Dems held all the cards, they could have chosen to go with Labour and we would have a totally different government that we have now, but they didn't.

Next we have AV (If you want to know what AV is, click this big link), AV is only used in 3 countries, with Australia being the biggest using it. AV does sound like a good system, it will make the parties fight more for there seats and create less safe seats (Hartlepool is a safe Labour seat for example) but even this has its bad points, bad points that the No campaign are using and are fair points if you think deep into it, but the Yes campaign also has very good points. Oh and the Yes campaign has some of my favourite comedians behind it, Stephen Fry and Eddy Izzard.

So what are these arguments? What is good about Voting Yes and what's bad about Voting Yes, and same with No?

Alternative Vote:
The Good: Party's will have to fight for there seats and have less room for lies and changing there policies.
The Bad: The BNP could get a seat or 2 very easily, and this isn't a good thing.

First Past The Post:
The Good: It has worked for thousands of years and 99.9% of other democracy's use it.
The Bad: Just look at the state of the UK since the ConDems got into power at the last General Election

I want to vote Yes, but part of me knows that even if I do, No will win. People don't like change, most voters read the Daily Mail and Daily Mail readers are idiots.

Yeah, sorry if this makes no sense, but when has politics ever made sense :P

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