Baboonery: "The AV campaign is built on lies and smears and is a massive retrograde step in democracy that will make pandering to the BNP a national sport"

I don't see where you're coming from. The main thing I can see is Labour politicians (for example) trying to avoid alienating LibDem and Tory supporters, because they may need their second votes. Instead of a safe-seat politician being able to ignore everyone outside his or her party, they'll have to consider all of us for a change. This seems to me to be a good thing.

Why do you think the leaders of the main parties are not elected by the first-past-the-post system? Is the system they use also "a partisan fraud based on lies and smears" and "a massive retrograde step in democracy"? Surely not?