to want to change the voting system from FPTP but NOT to AV?

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Why can't they just add up all the votes and the one with the most wins? NOt whoever gets to however many votes first.

Given that opinion polls are so accurate these days, I think they should just ring around a thousand people, weight the sample as they do for polls and there you go. Not only would it save millions in paying the people who count the bits of paper, you wouldn't ballot papers, you wouldn't have to close schools to be polling station and think of all those minutes of potentially productive time wasted by people walking to the polling stations. This would solve the country's growth problem too!!!

YANBU. I voted No because I don't want AV, but there are lots of other interesting alternatives to FPTP.

YANBU - but people still want to have a "local MP" which you wouldn't get if they were all selected on the basis of how many votes in total.

Agreed - AV sucks but so does FPTP!

And they can have my local MP - he's an advert for the JObs-for-life and useless that's Nick Cleggs touting.

YANBU. AV sucks. But FPTP sucks a lot more :P

The best method, the way I see it, would be to have a combination of Single Transferable Votes and direct Proportional Representation. That would ensure those who are still stuck in a 19th century mindset get their "constituency MP" (as if we still really need those, given today's means of communications and the centralisation of power to Westminster), while Proportional representation genuinely means that if lots of folks vote for LibDems, or UKIP or whoever, they are represented in Parliament too. Rather than this system whereby a 1,000,000 who voted for UKIP are effectively disenfranchised because FPTP is actually only a good method if you have 2 candidates.