The merits of AV

[jonb]

My personal take: The problem with the first past the post system that we have in Britain is that it is designed for adversarial politics and set in the British culture that means a divide by class, So we have a politics based around wealth. This does not now fit so well in this society as it did say one hundred years ago, and an increasing number of people feel disfranchised as neither of the main parties represent them. However the main parties are driven to hold power and they like the first past the post system as it gives them a greater hold on power than any system that would defuse power among a large number of parties.