Baboonery talks about AV being run according to "the ninth preferences of BNP voters".

No. AV whittles down the lesser candidates until you have only two left, and then counts equally EVERYONE'S preference for one or the other of those two candidates in that last round of voting. This is the same as the system for electing the party leaders. For the third or fourth time of asking, why is that system good enough for MPs to elect their own leaders, but is somehow not good enough for us?

Brian says that the existing system has served us well. I don't. I think the country is in a hell of a state, and that having a parliament that was more representative of the people would have helped a lot. We wouldn't have had Thatcher, and we wouldn't have needed her for the things she got right. More recently, we wouldn't have had the tuition fees cuts, or the riots. There'd have been less confrontation and more working together.

We were given a chance for a more representative system and we rejected it, partly because many Tory and Labour voters preferred to continue with alternate majority Governments, and partly because many voters generally didn't understand AV and preferred to stick with what they knew.

Big chance missed.