parrot-knight.livejournal.com ([identity profile] parrot-knight.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] altariel 2011-03-27 03:47 pm (UTC)

A yes, certainly. AV is not as good as a properly proportional system (I'd prefer a form of constituency-based STV as in the Republic of Ireland) but it should remove some of the distortions of FPTP. A successful move to AV would open the door to further reform a little way down the line, and also better reflect the country's real mood - which was probably not, for example, to deliver Thatcher landslides in 1983 and 1987, or Labour ones in 1997 and 2001.

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