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[coalescent]

It's been a while since I felt so completely out of step with what polls and elections tell me is the national mood. A friend of mine just emailed the list of places that actually voted Yes to AV -- Hackney, Glasgow Kelvin, Islington, Haringey, Lambeth, Cambridge, Oxford, Southwark, Camden, Edinburgh Central -- which makes some sense of this,

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[coalescent]

I hadn't seen that list but it gives me some small cheer as I'm Glasgow Kelvin.

Huzzah! I wondered.

there will be a referendum on Scottish Independence but by no means does it mean that it's a certainty that the Scots will vote to break away

Yes, from what I've been reading it seems fairly unlikely. Nervous-making all the same, given the other results yesterday. (The Conservatives gained councils! Which, I haven't looked, but I bet a bunch of them were due to good old FPTP vote-splitting effect...)

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It is devastatingly unlikely Sc will vote pro independence, this judged on anecdotal sample seems to me 100 & of the exLD and Lab voters in SC who voted SNP for first time this time, don't want independence. At All. They just didn't want to vote LD or Lab or Tory, and we had a viable alternative, which England lacked.

ALSo, as I said on Twitter, I am afraid you are vastly over compicating the issue here. UK mostly didn't CARE about AV (or, probably, PR), and those who voted, voted against it to annoy Nick Clegg. C;est ca.

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ps I remain bemused why peole under 30 or thereabouts seemed moved by this (AV) nd people over that age, and esp over 40 (like moi)cared very little. No pundit has explained this..

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pps to support this also anecdotal observation, those pro to AV areas are all basically full of above average bright students - hence the wonderful Beeb pundit comment that these were all areas that would "have voted yes to legalising cannabis",,

[coalescent]

Well, people under thirty are the ones who've come into political awareness as the political landscape has stopped being a duopoly (or the duopoly has become unsatisfying). So it makes a certain amount of sense to me that they'd be the ones most frustrated with only being able to put one X in one box.

[coalescent]

I'm happy to blame people who didn't care, too.