Deborah Klayman

On the eve of election day, I took to Twitter to push my views in other people’s faces. After all, that’s what Twitter’s for, right? This election will be a first for me – I will not be voting Lib Dem. I still believe in their ideology, but unfortunately Clegg chucked it under a bus, so as a proud employee of the NHS I will be voting Labour tomorrow and hoping against hope for a new government on Friday morning #VoteNHS. I despise the Tories (I am Scottish, so it was bred-in)

Firstly, the argument about FPTP applies far less for the European and council elections, which are what we are voting in today, than when it comes to a General Election. When we had an opportunity to change the system 3 years ago the one posited, Alternative Vote (AV), was the least effective of the PR systems available, and little was done to educate the electorate, so that came to nothing and the voter turnout was as woeful as usual (42.2%). At that referendum, only 0.59%