Nick Clegg doesn’t expect another referendum. The Conservatives (who just altered the constituency boundaries heavily in their favour) certainly don’t. And even if the powers that be ever agreed to another poll, I get the impression that the public would lose patience if we asked them to vote again about whether to change the system. You just can’t do this sort of thing regularly, or it would get farcical.
You may wish that a proportional system like the Single Transferable Vote was on offer now. I certainly do! But it isn’t, and I assure you, no other change will be on offer for several decades after this referendum. This is the one and only opportunity we have in this generation to make any improvement to the current system.
Do we want to tell our children, when this unfair First Past The Post system has become even more entrenched, that we had the chance to make voting fairer, but instead gambled our democracy on the faint wish of something better which never came?
Please don’t gamble with something this important. Vote Yes, while you still can!
Why is AV better than the current system? Let Dan Snow explain.