Claire Perry launches local No2AV campaign

Claire Perry, MP for Devizes constituency helped launch the local No2AV campaign in Marlborough on Wednesday 6 April.

Polling Day is on 5th May.  Our M.P. advises us, her constituents to vote against the introduction of the Alternative Voting system in favour of the present first-past-the-post (FPTP) system.

She says that

“AV is an unfair, untenable and unpredictable voting alternative to our present system that we have used for hundreds of years. AV treats someone’s fifth or sixth choice as having the same importance as someone else’s first preference which would see, in the words of Winston Churchill, the “most worthless votes given for the most worthless candidates”. Only three countries in the world use AV and it is even discredited by the man responsible for calling the referendum, Nick Clegg, who called it “a miserable little compromise”.

“AV would cost an additional £250 million to councils who are already facing a tough economic climate and more money would have to be spent just to explain the voting system to prevent a fall in turn-out at elections. The FPTP system is as effective as it is simple and the idea of One Person, One Vote is the staple of most democracies. I will be voting “No” on May 5th and it is my goal to persuade my constituents to follow suit.”