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In Scotland, Lib Dems got the Labour Party to agree to introduce the Single Transferable Vote (STV) for local authority elections. As a result, we now have slightly baffling three and four multi-member wards for councillors.

Worse still is the form of Additional Member System used in Scottish Parliamentary elections where by each constituent has both a constituency MSP (like under First Past the Post) but in addition we also have a range of 'regional' MSPs who represent a much wider area. This has led to accusations of there being two tiers of representation at Holyrood - most people naturally go to the constituency representative about issues while the regional representatives tend to fade into the background yet enjoy all the same perks of the job. I'm not sure quite how this system got chosen for the parliament though.

It's a tricky affair - and I can see the arguments boths ways over PR.

WillPS wrote:If LibDem can get in, get PR, then pull the rug under the tory's feet and force a dissolution, great.

That would be a rather bad idea! also if the lib dems can prove to people that colational can work well in uk it would help its case even more. on top of that Electoral reform could take up to three years, especial with the recent mess

Alistair Campbell speaking a lot of sense - the people who did vote Lib Dem yesterday are progressive, not Conservative.

Have a bit of fun with this:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/inte ... government

listening to gordon brown earlier i do get the feeling that he has given up and run out of energy. i felt that listening to him last night also.

unfortunately i have to agree with nick clegg in that i do believe the party with the most seats and highest percentage of the vote should probably try to form a government.

i think it would be pretty interesting to see a tory frontbench with say, vince cable as chancellor, alan johnson or chris huhne as home secretary etc. a tory front bench peppered with mps from all sides would be interesting to behold and probably the best we can hope for right now.

WillPS wrote:Alistair Campbell speaking a lot of sense - the people who did vote Lib Dem yesterday are progressive, not Conservative.

You do realise that with proportional representation the government would be made up of progressives and conservatives, right?

You Lib Dem supporters are confusing.

Chie wrote:

WillPS wrote:Alistair Campbell speaking a lot of sense - the people who did vote Lib Dem yesterday are progressive, not Conservative.

You do realise that with proportional representation the government would be made up of progressives and conservatives, right?

You Lib Dem supporters are confusing.

What about BNP, greens

The Conservatives got 36% of the votes, which means 64% of voters did not want the conservatives...

A coalition of all parties AGAINST the conservatives to change the voting system, the way parliament works, and possibly the banking sector, before calling a general election next year would be the best solution for fixing the fairness in the country.

Could we end up with the Labour, lib dem, SNP and PC

All 4 parties would happily get into bed to keep the tories out

The Liberal Democrat supporters are all for equal representation, yet they don't seem to understand that a Lib/Con coalition represents a greater proportion of voters (59.1%) than Lib/Lab (52%)!

Chie wrote:The Liberal Democrat supporters are all for equal representation, yet they don't seem to understand that a Lib/Con coalition represents a greater proportion of voters (59.1%) than Lib/Lab (52%)!

Coalitions wouldn't be automatic though, as they are not now!!