Paddy Ashdown explains why:
Video also available on YouTube.
Subscribe
-
Follow @libdemvoice.org on Bluesky
-
Like us on Facebook
-
Subscribe to our feed
-
Sign-up for our daily email digest
Most Read
- Sarah Olney bids to become candidate for Mayor of London
- The liberalism we need: a platform for people to thrive and live their version of a best life
- Mathew on Monday: It’s time to take big money out of British politics
- Britain has too much government and too little democratic power
- Making the most of the Government’s belated action on illegal Israeli settlements
Search
Op-eds
-
Are the men of violence back in British politics? (Chris Nelson)
-
London needs more social homes – and Liberal Democrat boroughs are determined to deliver (Gareth Roberts)
-
Andy Burnham’s devolution reforms go only half-way (Mark Corner)
-
Reform donations row shows how facts get trampled at Westminster (David Vigar)
-
The Independent View: Turning back the tide on free speech (Jack Coulson)
-
How many councillors has Reform UK lost since the May 2026 elections?
-
Lord Bonkers' Diary: Wah-wah brass and boings on the timpani
-
Elvis Costello: The Other Side of Summer
-
Government must do more to help people onto the housing ladder
-
The foxes who visited London Zoo with deadly intent
-
9 tips for speaking at a Liberal Democrat conference
-
Coyote vs. Acme: "A warm and witty and weirdly moving film"
-
The Joy of Six 1577
Recent Comments
David Moon
We keep obsessing about the National Debt and fiscal rules, when the real weakness of the economy is our trade imbalance with the rest of the world, particularl...
David Raw
@ Geoff Reid Thanks for the kind comment, Geoff. Still grateful to the village school in Birkenshaw for my early years ...... and to the great Sir Alec ...
Tanya Park
@David Murray thank you for your comment. There won't be a recording or a transcript I'm afraid; however, please do subscribe via the A Just Society website o...
Geoff Reid
David Raw is right in wanting education in England returned to to local authorities. Many people in Yorkshire can just about remember Sir Alec Clegg running edu...
Tristan Ward
"unearned income" What "unearned" income is this? Do you mean the return you are paid for putting your capital at risk of being lost when you put it to work...
3 Comments
the answer is “no”.
Nice lack of an argument there. When your only response to a video like this is to whine, you don’t deserve to win.
I have a lot of respect for Paddy but the 1.6% figure is absurd. How do you justify saying that only votes in seats which change parties are ones that ‘decided’ the election and then only by the swing? Or to put it another way if no seat changed hands, there wouldn’t be any votes which decided the election! Even if you were to take this ridiculous measurement, it would barely change under AV compared to FPTP, even in optimisic models it would only increase to about 2%.