the AV promotion team and the home counties

[AndyHB]

Re: the suggestion that AV will allow extremists in.

From what I can make out, the ONLY party to have come out 100% against AV is the BNP.  Mind you, I haven't checked the Socialist Workers Party site to check their position.  All the mainn parties - and even some of the parties you would expect to be solidly in favour have some degree of disagreement.  In a recent Channel 4 interview, BNP Deputy Chairman Simon Darby said this:

    "We are never going to get our feet under the table under the AV system."

[AndrewF]

Probably because their supporters couldn't cope with anything more intellectually taxing than putting a cross against a name - and the reason their vote is so low that they probable put it against the name they don't want at that!

[AndyHB]

Probably because their supporters couldn't cope with anything more intellectually taxing than putting a cross against a name - and the reason their vote is so low that they probable put it against the name they don't want at that!

I was going to say that that is being rude to those who are only able to do this, Andrew.  However, if you look at the membership lists, they include well-educated and responsible adults - so the argument you put forward doesn't stand up to scrutiny

[AndrewF]

I wasn't intending my comment to be taken seriously. It was actually a quote from the news quiz on radio 4 a week or so back!