Monday, April 18, 2011

Alternative Vote in the UK

I think that to some extent the AV vote is a good thing, but not with the current voting boundaries in the UK.
Labour changed alot of them because they tried to bring this in.
If the UK did bring in the AV vote then the boundaries will definitely have to change big time and this dates back to the 1400's. Boundaries were changed then to suit the Lords of the manor.
Blair did the same thing and it would most definitely exclude the Tories for many years if this occurred.

I would imagine to make smaller counties.
This will enable ALL MP's to be accountable to their voters as well as make them more communicative with them.
If you look at Essex, why should there be just a few people representing Essex when it's so large. Most people don't even meet there MP's in a lifetime. So how can an MP know what his constituents are thinking?
So if you think about it MP's can't actually represent their people.

With AV it would also mean no seats in government for the minor parties like the Raving Loony Bin party or whatever they are called and nor for ethnical parties just trying to cause a problem.

This will most probably mean then George Galloway wouldn't get in again. Which is a shame because no matter what you think he really does care and helps people on his radio show. Sometimes you have to listen to his reasoning and he mainly says don't listen to what we are being told and in the case of Iraq, to some extent, he was right.

So basically, it's your decision, but in order to accept AV things need to change, otherwise we are in trouble of having a dictatorship in Labour for many years!!

Also, it should be made compulsory to vote to stop apathy in out country

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