What will you be voting in the Voting Reform Referendum?

[Conservative,]

Personally I think it's disgusting that the words "safe seat" is even a politicial term. Most of the Labour people against it, I have noticed, are in what one could call a 'safe seat' because they can basically sit on their backside doing nothing because people vote for tradition etc. If the AV system stops that then I'm all for it.

That's the thing though, Mike it probably wouldn't stop safe seats for the Labour and Conservative parties as most of the "safe seats" are called "safe seats" as they get a fair majority anyway.

Ditto what Oli said. Safe seats are seats which they will win regardless because they have substantial support. Even if AV comes in, those seats are where nearly all the time they get 50% + of the votes, so it won't change much.

[Shar]

I have no idea what to vote for. AV is a majority system and it won't be a big change from FPTP anyway..

[Hecktix]

I have no idea what to vote for. AV is a majority system and it won't be a big change from FPTP anyway..

Do the right thing and vote no! Even Ann Widdecombe agrees! Good to hear the crazy ***** talking sense for once:

[jam666]

I can vote and will glady be going down to my polling station in the morning to vote NO to AV. As you can imagine most torys are against it and being one myself, I'm also against this ridiculous proposal by clegg and co. I will enjoy watching the result and will laugh out loud when I see the look on both cleggs and red ed's face. VOTE NO to AV!

[Hecktix]

I can vote and will glady be going down to my polling station in the morning to vote NO to AV. As you can imagine most torys are against it and being one myself, I'm also against this ridiculous proposal by clegg and co. I will enjoy watching the result and will laugh out loud when I see the look on both cleggs and red ed's face. VOTE NO to AV!

I doubt Miliband will be massively bothered, he can't really not support AV as it'd be hypocritical since it was he who won the Labour Leadership election on 2nd, 3rd and 4th preference votes over his brother who had more first choice votes.

YouGov poll yesterday showed a significant margin for No to AV - I think the major question is going to be what will happen to the coalition, Lib Dems won't be happy, but they had their referendum.

[jam666]

YouGov poll yesterday showed a significant margin for No to AV - I think the major question is going to be what will happen to the coalition, Lib Dems won't be happy, but they had their referendum.

Simple, they will put up and shut up. Someone needs to remind them just how many seats they won in the election which I believe was 57, when compared to 307 from the Conservatives. If they decide to leave the coalition then they will be committing political suicide as I doubt they would even get 10% of the votes nationally.

[Hecktix]

Simple, they will put up and shut up. Someone needs to remind them just how many seats they won in the election which I believe was 57, when compared to 307 from the Conservatives. If they decide to leave the coalition then they will be committing political suicide as I doubt they would even get 10% of the votes nationally.

I think the Lib Dems committed political suicide a long time a go

[Conservative,]

If the coalition falls, we'd have to have a re-election. Tbh a "NO" to AV might be a good time to bow out of the coalition for them. I mean, although they will be absolutely destroyed in the inevitable election, it may save them in the long wrong.

[Hecktix]

If the coalition falls, we'd have to have a re-election. Tbh a "NO" to AV might be a good time to bow out of the coalition for them. I mean, although they will be absolutely destroyed in the inevitable election, it may save them in the long wrong.

yeah but then we'd be in a worse position than we were in after the 2010 GE, I still can't see any party getting an overall majority and if the Lib Dems were out of the question one of the only plausible options would be a ConLab coalition which would be so bad for the country as they'd never agree on anything, unless the Lib Dems did still get votes and there was a LabLib coalition, that really would be an interesting one to see Nah Lib Dems will cling on as long as they can, well when I say Lib Dems I mean Clegg and his cronies in the cabinet. I could almost guaruntee Clegg won't be leading the Lib Dems through their next GE. If the Lib Dems leave the coalition it'll be through LD vote of no confidence, not Clegg's choice.

[jam666]

There is one element of the whole campaign for both sides of the av referendum and local elections thats very weird and thats the hypocracy of the labour party. Just the other day red ed was trying to flaunt DC by saying "Broken Promise after Broken Promise".. oh how the hyocracy cat crawls out of the closet as people must surely have short term memory loss if they can't see who just over a year ago was part of a decade of broken promises for blair and brown and played a roll in one of the biggest if not the biggest financial crisis that this country has ever seen. I really can't understand how people can justify supporting a ship that sailed long ago. (this is not based on party politics, its simply based on fact)