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[QUOTE=arista;7719273]Sure Vicky

But we had 13 long wasted years of New Labour
why the Feck Did they not start to change First Past the Post
System of voting?[/QUOTE]

On this I 100% agree with you,Tony Blair talked a lot about the alignment of the centre and left of politics and did talk to Paddy Ashdown on this issue.
Then as he won his next massive overall majority in 2001,he just let the whole thing slip away down the list of anything important.

My Dad firmly believed that certainly in the 2nd term of labour govt;after 2001,that at the very least AV would have been put in place.
I think Tony Blair turned his back on all he'd said as to that once he was getting such massive overall majorities.

It is no good anyone moaning at the Conservatives on this one, they will never change the voting system or even want to, they have been consistent all through.
To be fair to them even more,in the whole 13 years of opposition, they still never indicated any move to a change to the voting system.

AV could have been in place by the election of 2005 really,had Tony Blair not just played games as to it with the Lib Dems.

Of course they were even more daft, the Lib Dems should have insisted at the very least for AV to be part of the coalition agreement.

However the chance of 5 years of shared power, a Deputy PM title for Clegg and some Ministerial positions for some Lib Dem MPs, soon had them water any move to AV or PR down too