Re the "but we'll lose" problem, it's sooo difficult to find what people actually want at the moment, we'll probably have at least a few parliaments before things settle down into a new shape.
At the moment you have things like the Pirate Party not running a candidate in Cambridge (somewhere they might get a fair amount of support) because they didn't want to split the vote away from the Lib Dem candidate whom they broadly regarded as a Good Thing. I think it's reasonable to expect UKIP and the Greens to do particularly well out of AV, but besides that I'd really not like to guess.
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Date: 2011-04-04 04:44 pm (UTC)At the moment you have things like the Pirate Party not running a candidate in Cambridge (somewhere they might get a fair amount of support) because they didn't want to split the vote away from the Lib Dem candidate whom they broadly regarded as a Good Thing. I think it's reasonable to expect UKIP and the Greens to do particularly well out of AV, but besides that I'd really not like to guess.