(May 7, 2015 at 2:11 am)robvalue Wrote: Proportional representation seems like a stupid method to me. Apparently I missed a referendum on this issue some years back which offered a change to straight vote counting, according to a friend.
I remember that and blogged about it at the time. Basically we were given the opportunity to decide whether we wanted to keep the present first past the post system or the shiny alternative vote one. The result would be tallied and the one with the most votes would win.
You know - first past the post.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
