Vote Yes to AV and No to another Tory century

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You do have to wonder where the motives lie in the No to AV Labour camp. These dinosaurs including Jack Straw and John Reid would rather form an alliance with the Tories than share power with others on the liberal left. At heart they are conservatives - they do not trust the voters. They believe in government of the minority over the majority - first past the post. Elections fought over a few million undecided voters who can be swayed by Tory media propaganda, rather than the whole electorate under a system where every vote counts. AV is far from perfect - no electoral system can be. But the more the electoral system prevents single parties from gaining absolute power in parliament, based on 30% of the vote, the better. Most strange of all, these anti-reform Labourites seem to have forgotten that FPTP gave us a whole century of Tory rule! Labour were in power for a grand total of 22 years in the 20th century. The Tories ruled for 59 of those 100 years. If you don't want to be ruled by the Tories for another century, you have to vote for reform. And if you don't like a system that gives all power to politicians in parliament who can ignore voters except at election times, you must support reform and vote Yes. Who do you trust - the politicians or the voters? If you trust the people, vote Yes to give them more power. If you trust the politicians, I suggest you come off the medication.