TV Leadership Debates by Tom Morris
What Really Happens on Polling Day by Alex Foster
Electoral Reform by Malden Capell
NHS Efficiency Savings by Simon Howard
Boobquake by Liz Lutgendorff
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I listened to this episode, in the rain, whilst doing a leaflet run round the local area. It kept my spirits up, especially the interesting review of different ways of translating votes to representation.
Wow, just about everything Malden said about STV was incorrect. Transferred votes under STV have full strength, not reduced in any way. Secondly it IS proportional when used in multi-member constituencies as the Lib Dems propose (the more seats there are per constituency the more proportional it becomes). Thirdly it wouldn’t make the system unfair in the Lib Dems’ favour at all, as a proportional system it represents parties proportional to their vote. By “unfair” what you actually mean is that most people who vote for them wouldn’t be effectively disenfranchised any longer. If they got 20% of the vote they would get 20% of the seats, exactly as any other party would.
Also AV does solve one problem of FPTP and that’s the fact it doesn’t force people to vote for a party they don’t support to stop a more disliked party to get it.