Scots going on The List

[jamesww]

Classic Boris Johnson tweet:

"MayorOfLondon AV distraction over. Now let's concentrate on jobs, growth and making the most of the Olympics"

And the Olympics isn't some form of frippery ?

[Habbaku]

Depends on the city.  The Olympics helped transform Atlanta into a modern city.  I can only hope it does the same for London.

[jamesww]

Depends on the city.  The Olympics helped transform Atlanta into a modern city.  I can only hope it does the same for London.

You want London to be more like Atlanta, Georgia ?

[Habbaku]

Whoosh.

[citizen k]

Depends on the city.  The Olympics helped transform Atlanta into a modern city.  I can only hope it does the same for London.

You want London to be more like Atlanta, Georgia ?

They could stand to improve restroom facilities and handicapped access. Like they had to do in Athens.

[Josquius]

Classic Boris Johnson tweet:

"MayorOfLondon AV distraction over. Now let's concentrate on jobs, growth and making the most of the Olympics"

And the Olympics isn't some form of frippery ?

Was he speaking out against AV?
Would be kind of weird for a guy who pretty much got his job through AV...

Depends on the city.  The Olympics helped transform Atlanta into a modern city.  I can only hope it does the same for London.

This is what the Olympics are likely to do for London:

[Ed Anger]

So, like any other day.

[Neil]

Classic Boris Johnson tweet:

"MayorOfLondon AV distraction over. Now let's concentrate on jobs, growth and making the most of the Olympics"

And the Olympics isn't some form of frippery ?

Was he speaking out against AV?
Would be kind of weird for a guy who pretty much got his job through AV...

The Mayor of London is elected using AV?

[Josquius]

The Mayor of London is elected using AV?

Sort of. Not really. Ish. It uses Supplementary vote which uses the same basic principle of multiple choices (though limiting it to just two) only it adds everyone's second choices to everyone's first choices instead of removing the worst performers and redistributing their vote.
It certainly has a lot in common with AV and most of the anti-AV arguments apply equally or moreso with it.

[Jacob]

AV has been comprehensively rejected btw, 31% for AV 69% against.

Looks like the Liberal Democrats got fucked, then?

[jamesww]

AV has been comprehensively rejected btw, 31% for AV 69% against.

Looks like the Liberal Democrats got fucked, then?

Not only on this, I think they're all but electorally dead in the water for a generation, unless they can stay in the coalition, get it to change course and we have an economic miracle within the next 3 years.

[Josquius]

AV has been comprehensively rejected btw, 31% for AV 69% against.

Looks like the Liberal Democrats got fucked, then?

That's what people on the news are muttering- surprisingly high turn out for the referendum as people saw it as a way to attack the lib dems.
Which sucks.

I think we're stuck with the lib dems for the full five years now. Had it passed I'd have had them leaving sooner to try and disassociate themselves from the tories but now....they've just got to hang on and hope things pick up.

[Neil]

The Mayor of London is elected using AV?

Sort of. Not really. Ish. It uses Supplementary vote which uses the same basic principle of multiple choices (though limiting it to just two) only it adds everyone's second choices to everyone's first choices instead of removing the worst performers and redistributing their vote.
It certainly has a lot in common with AV and most of the anti-AV arguments apply equally or moreso with it.

Wow.  That's weak.  Parliament needs to roll that back, stat.

[Richard Hakluyt]

The unpopularity of coalition politics was confirmation for me that we should stick with FPTP.

As for the Lib-Dems, it has been revealed that much of their support is not really interested in the dirty business of government, they want to stand at the sidelines and make sanctimonious comments about what Labour or the Tories are doing wrong. I don't like Clegg, but at least he has the balls to get in there and try and make a positive difference.

[Josquius]

The unpopularity of coalition politics was confirmation for me that we should stick with FPTP

You mean the system which gave us the coalition and a hung parliament in around 1/3 of elections since 1885?