Archive for electoral reform
Baroness Warsi’s car-crash interview on AV
It’s not quite Jeremy Paxman vs Michael Howard, but there’s a definite echo of it with Adam Boulton’s repeated questioning and Baroness Warsi’s unwillingness to answer. So if you’ve missed it doing the rounds on Twitter and Facebook so far, here it is to enjoy (or is that suffer?): (One point on which Adam Boulton [...]
Voting experts unanimously reject first past the post
The London School of Economics reports: 22 voting theory specialists voted to select the “best voting procedure” to elect one out of three or more candidates. Each voter chose from a list of 18 nominated voting procedures as many as she/he approved of. From a possible maximum of 22 votes, First Past The Post (FPTP) [...]
Yes to Fairer Votes: the historical case #yes2av
Earlier in the month I argued the ‘Yes’ case for the AV referendum in a debate at the Gladstone Club. Bearing in mind the host organisation and the venue – the National Liberal Club – I took a more historical approach than usual. Though regular readers may have heard my Winston Churchill quote on electoral [...]
The Yes campaign's TV broadcast – featuring a duck
A rather good film from the Yes To Fairer Votes campaign: Impressed by the film too? Help spread it online or sign up to the Yes to Fairer Votes campaign here. And if you want a more detailed case for a Yes vote, take a look at Nick Clegg’s weekend speech on the alternative vote.
“AV is a very British reform” – watch Nick Clegg’s speech
Yesterday Nick Clegg gave an excellent speech at the London Region Liberal Democrats conference, putting the case for a Yes vote in May’s AV referendum. I tried out filming it on my iPad, an experience that mostly worked pretty smoothly*, and you can watch the resulting footage here: A transcript of Nick Clegg’s electoral reform [...]
David Schneider supports the Alternative Vote
Two minutes, twenty-one seconds of humorous campaigning for electoral reform courtesy of David Schneider. Enjoy:
(Also available on the BBC website here.)
How do the government’s political reforms measure up to the Great Reform Act?
Earlier this year I spoke in the National Liberal Club alongside the History of Parliament Trust’s Philip Salmon (and author of a very good book) about the historical context for the Coalition Government’s political reform program. Soon after becoming Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg promised “the most significant programmes of reform by a British government [...]
The animals are back … this time to explain the alternative vote
Following the success of their video explaining the problems with first past the post, the animals are back – this time to explain how the Alternative Vote works:
How complicated is the Alternative Vote?
This graphic is from Anthony Smith via Mark Thompson:
Yes to Fairer Votes: Campaign launch video
With just a month to go, over the weekend the final push from the Yes to Fairer Votes campaign was launched:
You can help spread the fairer votes message by sharing the video on Facebook and Twitter using the links here.
