Saturday, November 20, 2010

The Alternative Vote explained

Later. If you are looking for a serious guide to how AV works, try this video.







John Reardon was mentioned here when Nick Clegg's first speech as Lib Dem leader persuaded him to resign from the Labour Party. It wasn't that it made him join us: it made him despair of British politics altogether.

Judging by his blog - whence I have borrowed this illustration - he has since joined the Greens.

3 comments:

Dan Falchikov said...

Surely 4 and 5 are the wrong way round? Being pissed on when on fire is surely a better option than not?

Anonymous said...

Or maybe it's supposed to be 5. Would piss on them if they weren't on fire.

Anonymous said...

I'd piss on them. I'd just make sure I missed the burning parts.