Apr 18, 2011 18:10
"It is obscure, unfair and expensive," Mr Cameron said of the AV system.
"It will mean that people who come third in elections can end up winning. It will make our politics less accountable and it would be a backward step for our country.
"Too often debates about AV are less like political arguments, and more like scientific discussions, where people get lost in a language of proportionality and preferences, probabilities and possibilities.
"Of course, some of these things are important. But for me, politics shouldn't be some mind-bending exercise. It's about what you feel in your gut - about the values you hold dear and the beliefs you instinctively have. And I just feel it, in my gut, that AV is wrong."
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