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Not even the very young know everything.

I disagree. We had a golden opportunity to start the process of electoral reform and we didn't take it. After all I can't believe Clegg had suddenly become a supporter of AV has opposed to PR - but he campaigned for it as he knew that at least it WAS a change. (You could argue that he was...

As you pointed out, my first post was, deliberately, a bit disingenuous. The fact we still still have FPTP is because people voted for it. They voted for it for a number of reasons, some because they genuinely wanted to keep it and others because they were more voting against the alternative. As...

I'm well aware of the facts and I'm being disingenuous with a reason. At the time there were PR supporters who voted for FPTP; obviously not because they wanted it keep it, but because the proposed system wasn't one that they wanted to change to. I pleaded with people to vote for the change even...

I know it's been massively overshadowed since by the Scottish and Brexit referenda - but there WAS a public vote on changing the voting system less than a decade ago. (This always seems to be forgotten). People always seem to think that the only reason we don't have PR is because 'they' don't...