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What you DID say is that "3.8 million people can't be wrong" - there are absolutely no grounds for that statement - 3.8 million people can certainly be "wrong". They can of course just as easily be "right". In fact both statements are totally meaningless cliches.

What have numbers got to do with people being right or wrong? ??? Using numbers like that leads to the argument that the even greater number of people who voted Labour or Tory were even less wrong!

The Lib Dems campaigned for the alternative voting system on the basis that it was a 'fairer' system than FPTP and most importantly as a step towards an even fairer system, (in their view), the STV, being introduced. The only one of the big party leaders who campaigned against the change of...

That's not what the party publicly stated at the time although they did say they would have preferred the STV, (single transferrable vote). The Lib Dems campaigned strongly for a 'yes' vote in the referendum as did Ed Milliband.

Ironic that Nigel Farage got beaten by a politician who defected from UKIP to the Conservatives :)

It was - a lot of short memories - 2011 we had a referendum on the voting system - less than half of the electorate bothered to vote - change was rejected by two votes to one.