I'm yet to meet anyone who was voting no, but maybe that's just a London thing, or the circles I move in. The idea that anyone could fall for that bare-faced bullsh*t is kinda shocking (and a sad reflection on democracies' built-in limits, but hey ho )
The Tory war chest was definitely in evidence in terms of the 'public debate'. The Evening Standard's press academic made the interesting point that the papers have been almost entirely no-friendly (& in the '75 referendum were equally status quo orientated). The Murdoch rags I can understand, but I guess what it reveals is that the rest are labour aligned, and in the absence of a party line, were going for the pragmatic "let's not make a fuss" stance / keep our guys near power. Pretty disappointing.
I get that AV (-) is a paltry option, but still, this basically ensconces the Tories without response (they got their gerrymandering through the door in the AV bill) and means Lords reform will go the same way (just 'balancing' it, IE getting rid of Labourite lords and plonking Tory ones in). Pretty tepid democracy all told.
I'm consoling myself with sarcasm
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*EDIT* - dammit Ash you negged me. Talk about insult to injury
The Tory war chest was definitely in evidence in terms of the 'public debate'. The Evening Standard's press academic made the interesting point that the papers have been almost entirely no-friendly (& in the '75 referendum were equally status quo orientated). The Murdoch rags I can understand, but I guess what it reveals is that the rest are labour aligned, and in the absence of a party line, were going for the pragmatic "let's not make a fuss" stance / keep our guys near power. Pretty disappointing.
I get that AV (-) is a paltry option, but still, this basically ensconces the Tories without response (they got their gerrymandering through the door in the AV bill) and means Lords reform will go the same way (just 'balancing' it, IE getting rid of Labourite lords and plonking Tory ones in). Pretty tepid democracy all told.
I'm consoling myself with sarcasm
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*EDIT* - dammit Ash you negged me. Talk about insult to injury