Just going back to the "horse-trading" argument for a moment... thinking about this some more, it strikes me that we currently have a government which, after an FPTP election, was formed as a result of outright horse-trading, and which nobody voted for as such. Had we conducted the last general election under AV, we would at least have known whether the nation at large would have preferred a Labour-LibDem coalition or a Tory-LibDem coalition.
(We probably still wouldn't have a government with a mandate for what it then proceeded to do, because none of the main parties was even remotely up-front about the degree of cuts they would be imposing and where they would impose them, but that's a different discussion...)
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Date: 2011-04-01 03:53 pm (UTC)(We probably still wouldn't have a government with a mandate for what it then proceeded to do, because none of the main parties was even remotely up-front about the degree of cuts they would be imposing and where they would impose them, but that's a different discussion...)