YES To AV.

Give Me The Letter "A."

Then Give Me The Letter "V."

By Uncle Monty.

Lead Graphic By Alex Albion.

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YES To The UK Alternative Vote (AV).

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:: STORY UPDATE ::
By Allegra Stratton.
1. AV referendum: "Yes" campaign handed thumping defeat.
2. "No" campaign establishes unassailable lead of 69% to 31%.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/may/06/av-over-yes-campaign-routed
May 7, 2011.
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Let us try the Alternative Vote (AV)

for the next three general elections and then

determine if it is a better system than the one

we have right now of first-past-the-post

in the UK.

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For all too long the members and supporters

of the three mainline British parties - Tories,

Labourites, and Lib-Dems - have held a

monopoly on political power and parliamentary

representation at the expense of other voices

and the aspirations of small parties and their

candidates to be heard and recognized

inside today's House of Commons.

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Whatever the pros and cons are said to

 be for and against the May 5th, 2011,

Alternative Vote (AV) Referendum to re-

place the present UK voting system, I

shall be firmly voting YES!!

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What I like about voting Yes to the AV is

precisely because is is an alternative to

what we have.

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While I politically loathe Nick Clegg, who has instigated

and started the AV Referendum, I am voting Yes for

AV and most ceertainly not for him. The same is true

of hideous loser Red Ken Livingstone, who is once

again running against good Mayor of London Boris

 Johnson, in his (Red Ken's) endorsement of the AV

 Referendum. I loathe him as a political creep on apar

with my utter distaste for vile and treacherous Tony

Blair. The AV Referendum is not based on poltical

personalities, but on raw political change that is so

very much needed in today's Broken Britain.
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A ‘yes’ to voting reform could be death
for Mr Cameron. By Iain Martin.
http://agora-dialogue.com/?p=19196
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So to truly appreciate the AV Referendum is to dismiss

such personalities per se and to see instead the rotten

politics that has been cultivated for keeps under our

 present and detrimental system of first-past-the-post.

Some say the AV electoral count and process is too

cumbersome compared to what we have right now.

It matters not one itoa how cumbersome the new

process may or may not be, but rather how fair and

proper we elect those candidates who don't

represent just the three mainline parties.

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Loud screams that the British National Party

(BNP) could win seats under the AV system is

pure hysteria by those against the BNP or against

any change which dilutes the power and control

over the British Parliament by those three

 entrenched national parties that serve themselves

first more often than those with differing opinions

and smaller voices among the UK electorate.

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Inexplicably, BNP chairman and elected MEP
 Nick Griffin, has come out strongly against the YES
 Vote for the AV Referendum. Pity! But Nick's
opposition to AV I think is perhaps based as much
on his very personal and utter political dislike for the
 ilk of Clegg and Livingstone and the origin of the AV
 coming from the almost far left, instead of coming
from the traditional right, that Nick Griffin feels so
compelled to yell and support the "No" to AV

Referendum. To vote either way for AV

should not be based on personalities, as I

said before, or whether or not we like or

dislike Griffin, Clegg, Livingstone and/or Blair.

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"The BNP are campaigning against AV.  I would
suggest that one reason why the BNP are against
AV is that they ... It's Confirmed – BNP to
support 'No to AV' vote in Referendum ..."
http://isupportav.co.uk/2010/11/the-bnp-are-campaigning-against-av/
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Under AV, we can also see how other indvidiuals

from the far left, and not just from the far right, could

also be voted in. That's fine with me no matter if I

 strongly disagree with a particular elected member

based on his or her politics. The more of a mix of

parliamentary representives we have then more

the better I say.

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The middle ground is middle politics and that is

fine with the middle class voter. But not with

me and millions like me who are tired of all the

 middle and muddle that comes with such a

passive mass so evident all around us from

partliament to mass immigration to education
 and to political representation. We need to try

something else and I think YES to the AV

 Referendum would bring about that needed

urgent change for a positive change!!

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Vote "YES" To AV.

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And so, let's try it, has I've said, for at least the

next three general elections and then determine

if we should try something else or revert back

 to what we now have of first-past-the-post.
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'A referendum? Really?' Apathy and anger
dominate as AV decision looms. Both camps
struggle to convince voters of importance of
5 May poll – in town that would have had
a different MP under AV.
By Caroline Davies
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/apr/15/alternative-vote-referendum-chesterfield
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As a stictly independent voter that I am, I

favour YES because I think AV provides

a sound and exciting vehicle to those of us

who are independent voters outside the three

national parties in the UK. And, who are also
alienated at the present lopsided representation
 by the powerful lobbies and connected people

inside our present parliament. Anything

that gives the independent voter a greater

 say in running the country and possibly deter-

mining its future course should be welcome

 in any democracy no matter how facile our

parliament really is to those with big money

and big voices and big self-interests, along

with it being so frigid at times and completely

out of touch on major burning issues such

as mass immigration, negative welfare, and

the wholesale waste of taxpayer money by
such quangos as Equalities and Human Rights
Commission (EHRC) that spends millions on
 its tyrannical agenda to enforce its unelected
power on the people who oppose the trouble-
makers like the ilk of vile Trevor Phillips
and Simon Whoolley.

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YES then to AV, I say once again.

May 5th, 2011, is an historic opportunity

and moment for the British Electorate to

 vote YES for the Alternative Vote (AV)

Referendum and to change the way we

elect office holders in the future and not

just those who can mount votes to be

elected safely and repeatedly under
 first-past-the-post (FPTP).

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Most other countries would never give its

citizens the opportunity or the change to re-

place their establish political voting systems

by such an AV concept. We can and we

should vote one way or another at such an

 historic moment. Such will be even more

 historic if the majority of voters vote YES to

 AV like I most certainly will without a doubt.

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Indeed, I may even seriously consider running

for office myself as an independent candidate, if

the YES vote prevails. I would feel I have then

 a better chance of being elected and of show-

ing my fellow countrymen and women that I

can ably represent them as any present day

sitting first-past-the-post Member of Parliament

inside our rather closed and carefully controlled

British House of Commons that works, all too
often, against the true will of the English people.

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London has the power to swing result of AV referendum

By Craig Wooshouse.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/politics/article-23940931-voting-reform-rivals-clash-over-funding.do

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I Love Alternative Voting.

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The Times Letter to the Editor.

AV 'would usher in extremist parties'.

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Sir, We will vote "No" on May 5 because we

 think AV is less fair than our current system and

that it will provide an opportunity for extremist

 parties such as the BNP (British Nationalist Party)

and Respect to increase their vote, become

more influential and legitimise in their

participation in mainstream British politics.

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Under first-past-the-post (FPTP), everyone

is entitled to a vote and the BNP has never

been elected to Parliament. In (Chairman) Nick

 Griffin's words, for the BNP "to continue fighing

first-past-the-post elections and securing an ever-

dwindling vote is simply a recipe for demoralisation

and failure." The BNP has long complained that

FPTP puts the party at a "hugely unfair

disadvantage".

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AV would provide oxygen to groups such as the

BNP and Respect. While we hope that they would

still not win seats, AV would certainly give such

extremists a bigger platform, with more votes,

 more attention, and more legitimacy. AV could

lead to BNP MPs if, as Nick Griffin and the

"Yes" campaign want, this becomes a "step in the

 right direction" to proportional representation.

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The Undersigned Are:

Cllr NILGUN CANVER, Chair, Labour Friends of Turkey;

SIR TREVOR CHINN, Jewish Leadership Council;

STEPHEN CHUNG, Solicitor, Manchester;

RICHARD HARRINGTON MP; TONY IP,

Chairman, Chinese Chamber of Commerce, UK;

LORD JANNER OF BRAUNSTONE; SEN

KANDIAH, Chair, Tamils for Labour;

ZAKIR KHAN, Conservative Friends of

Bangladesh; ABBY KING KHAWAJA,

Conservative Arab Group; KWASI KWARTENG

MP; KAM LEE, Chair, Conservative Chinese Group;

SONNY LEONG, Chairman, Chinese for Labour;

KHALID MAHMOOD MP; PRITI PATEL MP;

 STUART POLAK, Director, Conservative Friends

 of Israel; LORD POPAT; DR RAMI RANGER,

Chairman, British Sikh Association; PATRICK

 RATNARAJA, Vice-Chairman, British Tamil

Conservatives, and KEITH VAZ MP.

April 1st, 2011.
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:: My Online Reply To The Times Letter ::

By Uncle Monty.

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Not one of the above signatories is an indepen-

dent voter like me. They all have some political,

religious, and/or social axe to grind  against AV.

What they fail to note is that BNP's Nick Griffin

has come out strongly AGAINST the AV "YES"

 vote. Thus the point of their Times letter is largely

mute at this point. Also, it is extraordinary to find

so many foreign names gathered to sign against

 the vote "Yes" to AV in the UK that is amply
confirmed by the alien names given and signed
by the almost 20 signatories.  Each of them are

 clearly vested representatives for the status
 quo. They have no desire or inclination or im-
agination to vote beyond their horse blinkers.
I'm wondering, too, if the foreign-born or
immigrants are those most opposed to AV?
It's a UK decision, not a foreign one, to de-
termine the outcome of the AV Referendum.
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The MPs included in the above letter are,
of course, those who have already gotten in
 under the first-past-the-post system. So they
have a vested interest in retaining such a system
for themselves. As for the BNP and Respect

gaining some advantage if the AV becomes law,

 then so be it. The wider the political spectrum

more the better. Those presently entrenched

 political and mainstream representatives

should not be allowed unabatedly to go on

and on unchallenged. For all too long, they
have been a kind of law unto themselves

and it's about time they were made to sit

 up and not take for granted their unques-

tioned "eliteist position" in British politics.
They think they're some how entitled
because they first got elected under first-
past-the-post and so anything that disturbs
 their chances of re-election under a new
system like the AV, frightens the living devil
out of them. Let them be frightened, I say!!

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As a strictly independent voter, I

again state I shall vote "YES" for the

Alternative Vote (AV)  Referendum come

May 5th, 2011 via my mailed ballot. To hell,

then, with FPTP. So, please give me the letter 

"A," then the letter "V," is what I say as a

registered and active British voter.

It's YES for me to AV!!

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Truly, Uncle Monty.

+Eve of Palm Sunday, 2011.

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"YES" To AV!

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UKIP attracts anti-immigrant vote as
polite alternative to BNP.  By Nigel Morris.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ukip-attracts-antiimmigrant-vote-as-polite-alternative-to-bnp-2268617.html
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