Arguably the Greens in Scotland were more successful in wagging the SNP dog. (View Post)

STV is my favoured system. ISTR FPTP is second above AV, but I can't now think of a good reason why that should be the case. Any systemof party lists like d'hondt comes bottom, though it�… (View Post)

Well said. And nor, I would argue, can you have FPTP - we had an entertaining argument on here some months back about what FPTP means. It was convincingly suggested that technically the system for el… (View Post)

I'm like a broken record on this, but AV is not PR. It's a perfectly plausible outcome that the Tories would do even worse under AV than they will under FPTP. (View Post)

To be fair, mind, most analysts I read said "what on earth is he up to? This seems daft." or words to that effect. I'm with BenPointer on this. It was going to shit anyway. (View Post)