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    It would be a missed opportunity not to have a referendum on election day
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    Well, they may say that, but it's bonkers and they don't mean it. If you talk to Lib Dems on the ground, particularly not in Nick Clegg-land, which is very unrepresentative of Lib Dem-land . . . that progressive coalition is still there. Full Article at New Statesman
    Well, they may say that, but it's bonkers and they don't mean it. If you talk to Lib Dems on the ground, particularly not in Nick Clegg-land, which is very unrepresentative of Lib Dem-land . . . that progressive coalition is still there.
    SOURCE: New Statesman 1 month ago
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It would be a missed opportunity not to have a referendum on election day
  1. The system I favour, which is Jenkins's . . . was a brilliant synthesis of systems that both maintain the constituency link, which I value, and introduce a greater element of proportionality. As we've got that [report] why continue to reinvent the wheel?
    SOURCE: New Statesman 1 month ago
  2. The idea that the Liberal Democrats have more values in common with the Tories is preposterous.
    SOURCE: New Statesman 1 month ago
  3. And so I can announce today that, in Labour's next manifesto, there will be a commitment for a referendum to be held early in the next parliament ... It will be for the people to decide whether they want to move to the alternative vote.
    Gordon Brown – Gordon Brown SOURCE: New Statesman 1 month ago
  4. Yeah, but I think it will come. I think it will come. I think it's just a matter of time but, as I say, I think it was a missed opportunity.
    SOURCE: New Statesman 1 month ago
  5. You have two questions: Yes or No? If Yes to change, which of the following options do you prefer?
    SOURCE: New Statesman 1 month ago
  6. The reason I've never supported AV is that it would have given us an even bigger majority in 1997, and it would have given the Tories an even bigger majority in 1983, and probably 1987 as well.
    SOURCE: New Statesman 1 month ago
  7. You only need one referendum
    SOURCE: New Statesman 1 month ago
  8. I don't think [electoral reform] is something that made Tony get up in the morning
    SOURCE: New Statesman 1 month ago
  9. Of course I would have liked us to have done more, more quickly.
    SOURCE: New Statesman 1 month ago
  10. Simulations of how the 1997 result might have come out under AV suggest that it would have significantly increased the size of the already swollen Labour majority.
    SOURCE: New Statesman 1 month ago

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