Flashmob for fair votes 5pm outside Lib Dem talks, 21 Palmer Street, SW1H 0AD.

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New figures from the Electoral Reform Society examine exactly how well each party would have done under two systems of PR: Alternative Vote (AV) and Single Transferable Vote (STV).

While they show that under AV the Lib Dems would only increase their seats to 79, the most interesting think for me is that the Conservatives still poll the most seats but insufficient for a majority in all examples.

A Lib/Lab coalition under AV would have a 60 seat majority, with a Lib/Con group a majority of 98. Under FPTP a Lib/Con coalition has a notional 106 majority over Labour. A Lib/Lab group manages just 8 seats. Under STV, a Lib/Lab coalition would have a 123 seat majority, with a Lib/Con group a majority of 201.

Found via The Guardian.

Here is my video taken at the TakeBackParliament protest on Saturday.

Dressed in purple and holding signs such as “fair votes now” and “votes not moats” around a thousand campaigners gathered in order to “Take back Parliament” for the voters.

We’ll be doing it all again tonight, so I hear…..

Guy Aitchison from OurKingdom posted a simple question on Friday morning – Is This Democracy? No. No, it’s not. I believe that our hung parliament can only be resolved by electoral reform. So this afternoon I rallied with hundreds of friends from many different groups in Trafalgar Square to Smith Square shouting Fair Votes Now!

Rupert Murdoch and News Corpse was slain below Nelson. I’m sure he would have approved.

Billy Bragg sang us a song.

And invited us to join him on a walk down to Smith Street where a meeting of Liberal Democrat MPs needed to hear our voices.

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