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Vote 2011
I'm disappointed that apparently, to my nation, the better course of action when you're angry and disillusioned at your corrupt and douchey coalition government is not to vote in a fairer voting system, but to vote back in* the corrupt and douchey opposition, which we only fucking got rid of last year.
TROLL HARDER BRITAIN, for fuck's sake.
* thank whoever-it-is that this is only for local government...
I'd just like to talk about something else that happened today (but written in a completely different tone - hence why it's not in the other post).
Someone at work declared that they were not voting tonight, didn't understand the referendum and that they only found out the local elections were today.
First off, I can't understand people who don't vote. We live in an amazing society which gives you the freedom to choose who represents you. People in North Africa were setting themselves on fire to protest how they wanted this system. And you don't want to vote because "it's too much effort" or "politics is boring" or "I don't know who to vote for"? As someone (I can't remember who) once said: "If you don't vote, you give up any rights to say that the government is rubbish, because you didn't choose to do anything about it"
Secondly, how can you not understand the AV system. IT IS SIMPLY RANKING THINGS. YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO RANK MORE THAN ONE. YOU CAN JUST PICK ONE PERSON TO VOTE FOR. I sent them an email detailing this comic:
but I don't think they've changed their minds on not voting. I also read a brilliant article by Armando Ianucci that a colleague had found in The Independent. It explained some of the myths behind each campaign, whilst also complaining about how the two different sides have gone about it.
Thankfully, pretty much everyone in my division all agree that YesToAV is the best choice and discussed it at length this morning.
I SHALL be watching the Scottish election count tonight
Albeit a bit shit and not as good as the General Election.
The no2av campaign is full of lies and lies. The Yes campaign, on the other hand, has been somewhat lacking in drive and simplicity. Because of the Tory money poured into the No campaign, AV is set to lose the referendum. AV is a better voting system than we have. However, it is only marginally better, and nowhere near the best system we could have. There’s also the added stinger that I don’t really believe in representative democracy anymore. I can’t see any way that it can work fairly. AV is good, but the referendum will fail precisely because politics is so terribly fickle and inefficient.
totheexperts
The last time the Conservative Party opposed electoral reform was to give women the right to vote. Just going to put that out there.
Vote Yes to AV!
YES to AV!
Today is a big day in the UK. We get to choose whether we get a new voting system for future elections.
The current system we have splits each city up into small chunks, takes the top (majority) result for your small chunk, and then that is meant to represent your vote. But not so much if you voted for someone who didn't get the majority in your chunk.
The AV (Alternative Vote) is a system where each individual vote will count. Yes, it's true that only three other countries use the system; but most countries in the world either have obscenely corrupt governments who look after the system that looks after them, or they simply aren't the right size for the system.
What the 'No2AV' campaigners don't tell you is that just because only 3 other countries use AV, it does NOT mean that every other country in the world uses our current system. In fact, far from it.
If you think that it's simply fairer for each individual vote to count - and not just the votes of the majority of people in your local area - then vote YES to AV. AV is infinitely more democratic than the current system.
Alternative Vote explained using cats. And a dog. #yestoav #notoav #mehtoav
A good explanation of the alt-vote system using cats & one dog. http://goo.gl/KyeOE It's solidly in favour of AV so check the No arguments as well but it's a worthwhile watch all the same :)
Time to go and vote. Happy days! yestoav
