AV – Jon Worth's Euroblog

28.04.2011 UK Politics

Finally something to smile about prior to the AV referendum (vote #Yes2AV!)

First up we have Is your Cat confused about the referendum on the voting system on the 5th May? With cat versus dog simplicity, some nifty graphics, and why AV keeps out the nasty dogs. It’s even good at explaining

28.07.2010 UK Politics

How the current ‘debate’ about election reform is giving precisely the opposite of a principled outcome

So wrangles about how and when to hold a referendum on the future of the UK’s election system rumble on… and how messy the whole thing gets. The only given is that there will be a referendum sometime in this

12.05.2010 UK Politics

6 days is all it takes to tear up an unwritten constitution

So we have a Tory-Lib Dem coalition. Masses has been written about all the pros and cons of this, and I may return to some more themes in a later post. But for the moment I want to focus on

10.05.2010 UK Politics

A quick guide to UK election systems of the future

I’ve talked to a number of friends, in the UK and elsewhere, about the need for a new election system in the UK. Most of my friends are politics nerds, yet I have been astounded by the lack of clear

09.06.2009 UK Politics

Gordon Brown and AV – no, not now Gordon

At the ‘we don’t want to oust Gordon’ PLP meeting earlier this week many words were spoken about how the Prime Minister had learnt the lessons of the last week, how he was now going to be better at listening.