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Showing posts with label AV Vote. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AV Vote. Show all posts

Thursday, 28 April 2011

Tuesday, 26 April 2011

Referendum question

“Can you vote ‘Yes’ for AV and put ‘No’ as your second preference?” http://www.heraldscotland.com/mobile/comment/ken-smiths-diary/on-to-a-winner-1.1097914

Thursday, 31 March 2011

AV - the case against

Rather patronising the ‘Liberals’ within Compass wrote a report just before the last election claiming that unless Labour supported a move to some form of voting reform it would be dead in the water.

Monday, 14 March 2011

Response: Alternative Vote Referendum‏

I am sure UNISON will think long and hard before deciding whether or not to recommend to its members a position on the Alternative Vote Referendum. All of the technical reasons for and against have been laid out so I would not take up members time repeating them.

Saturday, 12 March 2011

AV vote campaign bypassing UNISON?

Alan Johnson MP, former General Secretary of CWU and until recently a senior member of the Labour Shadow Cabinet, has criticised the ‘depressing conservatism’ of trade unions on electoral reform:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12706074