"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." Mark Twain attributed Benjamin Disraeli as saying, or did he as Dizzy never wrote it down. So, two thirds of the population say NO to the Alternative Vote - well no, not really. A miserable 42% bothered to vote after the lack lustre campaigning failed to light up the country still hung over from an unseasonably warm Easter break and fervent flag waving for Wills and Kate. So under 29% of the population, eligible to vote, bothered to do so and said 'No' to reform, just over 13% wanted change.
'Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve', George Bernard Shaw.
... or do we get the democracy we deserve or deserve the democracy we get? Well if you don't vote you've disenfranchised yourself. Maybe if we had a more proportional system in the UK, my local council elections may have offered up a Labour and Lib Dem candidate and not just a limited list of one Conservative, Independent (who was the incumbent Conservative councillor) and Green candidate. I felt a little circumscribed walking into the voting booth, a cross went next to the least worst candidate.
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