Following defeat in the recent UK referendum on the 'alternative vote' system the Lib Dems, who championed the lost cause that was 'AV' are now looking for an alternative to the alternative vote.
Had AV been accepted as the new system for voting in general elections voters would have been able to rank candidated in order of preference, with second, third and fourth preferences being taken into account if no candidate managed to poll over 50% of the vote. This would have been great for the Liberal Democrats, as it would have helped them to overcome their perennial 'wasted vote' problem, which sees potential supporters of all the smaller parties forgoe voting for their prefered candidate in favour of one of the big parties who actually stand a chance of winning.
Following the defeat of the Yes to AV campaign Lib Dem strategists are now looking for new ways to rig general elections in their favour, sorry no, I mean 'make the voting system fairer'. And insiders have told me that they have recently hit upon something which they think could be the perfect solution - to scrap elections altogether and use opinion polls instead.
In an off-the-record conversation one Lib Dem strategist told me 'people always say that they are going to vote for us in opinions polls, but then actually vote for someone else at the ballot box. We think that this is unfair, and we are all about making the voting system fairer, so we are going to start a new campaign to make opinion polls binding.
We live in the 21st century, when technology makes communications instant and everything happens super-fast, but yet we only change our government once every 4 or 5 years. With this new system we could change the government every week if we wanted to. We think that makes it a much more modern and progressive system. Or at least that's how we are going to try to sell it anyway.
When I asked her whether she thought there was any chance of being successful in getting this through parliament she gave me a funny look and asked 'did anyone really believe we could get AV? Well then.'..
BTW, you can follow the link I included above to have your say in the political (and other) surveys on the YouGov website, which you get paid for participating in as well as perhaps, maybe, not really, in the future, helping to decide elections...
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