NO2AV: Only two electoral reform options on the table

Tuesday, 4 January 2011 12:00 AM

Matthew Elliott, campaign director of the cross-party NO to AV campaign, comments on IPPR's report attacking first-past-the-post:

"Everyone agrees that there's no such thing as a perfect voting system, but voters have a choice between just two options on May 5th.

"We can either keep our existing way of voting or switch to the alternative vote, a system which is obscure, unfair, and expensive - and which Nick Clegg has called 'a miserable little compromise'.

"The IPPR have said they would prefer another option altogether - the additional member system - but that's not on the table. Six months ago, they wrote that AV 'is not the right option for the UK', and that 'it does not address the many problems of the current system'. That's why people who want real reform should vote NO to AV in May."

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