Rico would just blow up parliment, then, walking away (Cool guys don’t look at explosions) say

“Try operating a country now you Government Jerks!”

“Economists, I hate economists…”

“Exclusive: Liberal Democrat leader rejects tactical voting, and says the race for PM is between him and Cameron”

Fantastic.

I’ll be voting Labour anyway though, fuck you Nick Radford!

I wonder how many MPs would be left?

Thing is, I don’t really like the looks of this “Sandy” bloke, but I’ve voted LD these past 6 years and I’ll vote them again.

Mainly becasue they’re the best guys to get some form of proportional representation going..

..which is why I can’t tell if this leaflet is to say “LOOK! We’re proving out point” or “we just want POWAR”

Tactics would have to change once the voting system changes, depending on what sort of system we get. I’ll personally be happy for more content focused leaflets. They’ll all tend to repeat the same point, whatever it is, as we have about the time it takes to pick the leaflet up and throw it in the bin to get info through to most people. So lots of pieces of paper put through the door mean more people eventually see what we have to say. It is annoying, but people don’t usually read long policy documents if you put it through their door.

As for what policy we promote, while it’d probably gain some more votes, we’ve never been about altering policy to make ourselves popular. At least for the most part. The Lib Dem membership wouldn’t accept promoting something they don’t agree on. The leadership don’t get to tell us what we believe, however much the media seem to think it works like that…

Clegg didn’t say much, Cameron spoke a lot and spoke well but didn’t actually say a great deal about his policies. Brown actually came across as knowing more about his polices, but his presentation has always been more subdued.

This whole “Win/Lose” metaphor has gone too far. It’s like “winning” a survey, by gaming it.

Scenario 1) The elected politician looks out for the public interest (yeah, I know)
Scenario 2) The elected politician looks out for his own interests

Either way, he’s looking at the voting results and pandering/skewing his actions to hit their perceived interests.

You also complain that political parties aren’t lying to you about the most valuable way to spend your vote. At least you’re consistently idealistic.

Win win for me.

@Mike: I’d like the Lib Dems to get in and reform the voting system. After that, any party can get a big chunk of seats with a big chunk of votes, and I’ll look at some smaller players.

I don’t think I’ll be a lifelong Lib Dem voter but at the moment they are the best hope, I think, of having a genuinely different way of doing things.