UK General Election, Election Day and Results Thread

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Soleron said:
What I don't get is that Alternative Vote (Labour's formulation) is bad for BOTH the Lib Dems and the Conservatives because it mainly benefits Labour, at a time when the voting system is most biased towards them already in terms of seats against vote share.

So why are the Conservatives offering it?

But I think the Conservatives have already offered everything they can - and more than the Lib Dems deserve given their seat number and the fact that Cameron could easily go for a minority government.

A referendum on Alternative Vote. Very different from just passing the law.

Though I suppose it would be more popular than PR.

I don't see why it should benefit Labour. It'll benefit the Lib Dems more than anything, really: Labour has many safe seats, in which people vote Labour, thus setting it as their first choice. The second choice would inevitably be the Liberal Democrats- there is far more common ground between Labour and LibDem than Labour and Tory. Perhaps UKIP would also benefit from being the second choice of many a Tory voter.

Come to think of it, I don't really like this idea.