How about an actual referendum on whether or not we need a better system rather than “do you want this plaster putting on it?”
Single transferable vote is not a solution to the first past the post problem. It’s literally the same system with a minor fix which won’t really result in any change since we effectively live in a two-party system anyway.
To me this is tinkering with the edges of a broken system. How about some proper voting reform?
The public rejected that at referendum.
A generation ago.
How about an actual referendum on whether or not we need a better system rather than “do you want this plaster putting on it?”
Single transferable vote is not a solution to the first past the post problem. It’s literally the same system with a minor fix which won’t really result in any change since we effectively live in a two-party system anyway.
It was AV in the referendum not STV