GAUCHE: AV RULED OUT FOR A GENERATION

7 May 2011

AV RULED OUT FOR A GENERATION

The resounding defeat for the alternative vote in this week's referendum means that Nick Clegg's "miserable little compromise" has been consigned to the dustbin of history (at least for the forseeable future), which is no bad thing. I'm in Barcelona on the Orwell trail with limited internet access right now, so you'll have to wait until next week for my comprehensive response, but I've put up a short post on AV IS NOT PR giving my initial thoughts.

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'Moscow Gold? The Soviet Union and the British left by Paul Anderson and Kevin Davey is a fine little book you can read in a day. Anderson and Davey have taken advantage of the vast amount of research into communism since the end of the cold war. They wear it lightly, and refreshingly, are open about their political position. As members of the democratic left, they believe that communism was a disaster for left wing politics. It tied the left to tyranny and the lies and disillusion that went with it.'
NICK COHEN

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