Alternative Vote Referendum Broadcast

April 11th 2011 | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

We’ve done something slightly different with our broadcast, using three short films to explain some of the flaws of the Alternative Vote (AV) system.

The first features the return of Rik Mayall and his Bafta and Emmy award winning character, Alan B’Stard MP. Mr B’Stard returns to politics because the new AV system will lead to more regular hung parliaments, allowing him to make wild promises to get elected, without any intention of keeping them. In a nod to the recent behaviour of Nick Clegg and his Liberal Democrats over the tuition fees increase, Alan B’Stard remarks that once he gets in power, all he need do is “blame the other lot and say we had to do it in the national interest”.

The second features a horse race narrated by renowned actor and comedian John Sessions, in which ‘Labour Lad’ appears to have pipped ‘Tory Boy’ to the winning post, only for both jockeys to be told that the third-placed horse, ‘Lib Den’, has claimed an unlikely victory.

The final film is shot in a classroom, where a teacher tries to explain how AV works to sea of blank and befuddled faces.

Comments


  • Anonymous

    The guy in red hat at 2.49, with his betting shop stuff. . . . that’s it, right there, the campaign’s clincher. More of him, front and centre, I think.

  • John

    How stupid AV is. Costly, illogical and not representative of what the voters wish.

  • Woden777

    Here is what happens when the electronic voting system is approved. See this guy in America in court testify under oath that he was hired by American politicians to design a system of undetectable fraud within the electronic voting system, to produce any dishonest result the politicians required.

  • No2AV. Duh!

    AV = More Hung Parliaments. More Hung Parliaments = More Coalitions. More Coalitions = The country is left powerless as the party that comes third is able to decide the future government. How can this be democratic?