AV seems to me to be a rather silly method of selecting who you want to be your representative, if we want to vote for the polices of one party, there is not a 2nd and 3rd or 4th option, only those who do not really care who represents them or care about government polices could be interested in choosing an alternative candidate. And only those parties who do not have strong independent polices would be interested in sharing power, as they would not be in a position to carry out the polices on which they would have been elected. So they would be standing for election for the power and not what they could do with the power.

The problem we have is the fact that with the three main parties being so close on polices because most of our laws are now made at the EU level. We therefore have so little to choose between them that it factually makes little difference who becomes MP or which party wins an election or what sort of coalition deal they cook up between themselves after the election, we end up with the same sort of government following the same sort of polices.

All three parties have now effectively deserted their own core traditional voters deciding to all stand on the middle ground. We have a coalition at the moment simply because none of the big three parties offered a manifesto that was markedly different from each other on the main substantive points, so none of them actually offered us any real choice.

AV will not address that problem in fact it will probably make it worse as the incentive for them will be to carry on with more of the same and that is already turning voters and party supporters away in droves and turning our elections into beauty pageants, just take a look at the three leaders.

I think perhaps I am talking myself into supporting AV as at least the smaller parties who do offer an alternative would theoretically get a larger voice.

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