Actor Steve Coogan and presenter Carol Vorderman have backed Liberal Democrat pledges to reform how the UK’s general elections are run.

  • HeartyBeast
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    99 months ago

    No, they actually got a vote through for a referendum for the UK to adopt the AV+ alternative vote system system. It’s flawed, but I thought it was an improvement on first past the post and voted for it. Not enough other people agreed

    • ChrisOP
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      39 months ago

      Unfortunately the Tories pushed hard against it “being too complicated” and “would result in more hung parliaments” and people bought that bullshit, and we ended up with another Tory government nobody wanted at the next election, which almost certainly wouldn’t have happened under AV.