I filled in your form then cancelled it when I got to the last question. What a stupid question. You ask if one favours reform but dont give the options of reform to what. I do want to see reform, to PR not AV.
What will you learn from this? You are going to imagine that many more people favour AV than actually do.
Why didnt you ask people how they voted in the referendum?
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Because AV favours Lefty politics and PR favours those right of centre. Universities aren't interested in a voting system that more accurately reflects public opinion, they just want a system that keeps the Marxists in power.Originally Posted by flamingreen
Hence the, "would like like voting reform and that is AV". Not would you like voting reform and what would be your preferred choice.
Peter Hitchens is fond of saying that opinion polls are used to shape opinion, not measure it.
Peter Hitchens says quite a few sensible things.
This explains opinion polls in great detail. There has never been, IMHO, a better description.
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Good luck in your disseration, Krystina, although your first question on age group made me feel rather ancient! It had a cutoff of 40. We have an ageing population in this country. If you had spread your age groups out a bit more, you would have got a better picture of opinion in the 40-50, 50-60, 60-70 and 70+ age groups.
How do you come to that conclusion, Road Hog? The only major democracy that uses AV is Australia, where it favours the right of centre parties. Indeed, it was introduced there because of the split in the conservative vote between the Australian Liberal Party (right-wing by British Liberal standards) and the Country Party (the main rural-interest party). It was feared that this split vote would allow the Australian Labor Party to get into power, so AV was introduced to allow Liberal and Country voters to transfer their second preferences to the other conservative party, thus keeping Labor (usually the most popular party in terms of first preference votes) out of power a lot of the time.
Again, how do you reach that conclusion? In Germany, for many years, PR allowed the Social Democrats and centrist Free Democrats to form a coalition, keeping the Christian Democrats (the main right-of-centre party, and the most popular party) out of power.and PR favours those right of centre.
Sweeping generalisations like yours, about electoral systems, are highly risky.
Marxists have never been in power in this country.Universities aren't interested in a voting system that more accurately reflects public opinion, they just want a system that keeps the Marxists in power.
My preferred choice would be the list system in constituencies of limited size, or the additional member system, allowing for broad proportionality while preventing tiny splinter parties from getting representation and causing instability.Hence the, "would like like voting reform and that is AV". Not would you like voting reform and what would be your preferred choice.
Completely agree. Nice one, Paul.
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Oops... that's like a red rag to bull saying that on this forum
I put No down. But there is a huge need for reform in the way in which politicians get money. They cannot be allowed to have a career in politics which gets them loads of money. Have a no jobs which you did not have when you came in rule.10. Do you believe there is serious need for reform in Britain's electoral system?
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That's known as 'democracy'.
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