Exactly—that is the point. What we want to do in the amendment is quite simple. We want to give the people the choice that the Liberal Democrats did not have the strength or the guts to give them. The Liberal Democrats are in favour of a system to allow people to vote in a referendum on the alternative vote, which is largely irrelevant—it is a system that allows people to list candidates in one constituency in order of preference—because they hope to benefit from the fact that they are everyone's second preference, but the first preference of very few people.
Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Austin Mitchell
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 12 October 2010.
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Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill.
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