Clegg's Theory of STV

This Blog wasn't intended to be all about Electoral Reform, but the subject was the main reason I voted Lib Dem and as the country starts to discuss its outcomes, a criticism of Single Transferable Vote keeps appearing and i have a sinking 'wanting to bang my head against the table' feeling this reason will run and run, I can even see reporters in fucking stupid news reports with that strip at the bottom of the news saying "STV too Complicated?" asking a member of the general public

"what do you think about STV? do you understand it?"

"No, I don't know anyone who does!"

"Well there you go Kirsty, back to the studio."

Its total rubbish, STV isn't so hard to Grasp, its not fucking Einstein's theory of Relativity (hence the witty title).

This reason is so fucking stupid, why are just accepting people don't know or understand it? why the fuck aren't Newspapers having explanations on the front page? Why hasn't the One show done a Report on it explaining it and the pro's and con's! This is why sometimes living in this country is infuriating, its like everyone conspiring against improving are Country!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote - Read through the fruit example, within a few times of reading it you should get it, or have a grasp.

How can we have a fair and even debate on this subject if we just accept that we don't understand it; the criticisms so far has been totally wrong! If we just took the amount of votes a party got throughout the country and divided them into seats, then yes we would have 13 BNP MPs. That wouldn't happen with STV, it's not a pure Proportional Representation system it keeps its links to local constituencies. So why have I heard this argument so many times? its just false!

I believe if everyone knew about STV, most people would want it, therefore ignorance benefits the First Past the post loving Cons, which benefits the ideology of The Sun, The Times and The Daily Mail, but I'm sure not explaining it is just a Coincidence.