Voting for a hung parliament
There's been some discussion about Clare Short's advice that voters should vote for a 'Hung Parliament' - namely how do you do that in a constituency system.It is indeed not possible to guarantee that your vote helps to achieve a hung parliament, but would not a rule such as 'If your MP is in the party ahead in the polls on polling day vote for the second placed party, and if you are in a constituency where that party was in second place or a near third place vote for the sitting MP. Otherwise vote Lib Dem' [Ok it's not that simple, but you would think newspaper columnists could follow it] raise the possibility?
posted by Matthew @ 9/14/2006 09:20:00 PM
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