Sentences with phrase «av referendum»

Easy relations between the Coalition partners began to break down in earnest after the AV referendum.

Fortunately in my opinion David Cameron and Nick Clegg insist the coalition government will survive the AV referendum, because in my opinion a successful coalition is what will most materially improve the chances of a «Representative House of Commons» becoming a reality.

Let's stand back from the turbulent aftermath of the AV referendum - with all its argy - bargy about the whether the Coalition will move left or right, and whether David Cameron should now press home his advantage - to look at the Government in the round, one year on.

«We paid a big price for combining the AV referendum with the first elections to be held after the general election last year.»

They have no other short - term strategic aim (and no medium - term one either, given the AV referendum result).

But won't the Lib Dems want to be out of the Coalition if they get an electoral drubbing next week and lose the AV referendum, as the polls are increasingly certain will happen?

A negative result in the AV referendum would be presented in the media as an out - right rejection of all forms of electoral reform.

The second clash was the AV referendum.

YouGov has been asking voting intention in the AV referendum regularly since June 2010.

Indeed voters already made clear their views on electoral reform in the defeated 2011 AV referendum

We know why there's an AV referendum - it's there because that was the price Nick Clegg required to deliver his party for a formal coalition rather than just the confidence - and - supply agreement he would otherwise have offered (and hence the new General Election later in 2010)- something his own party is now turning vigorously against, but too late (they're probably doomed).

And if the Lib Dems are the only party that could offer the Tories the chance to control a majority of seats, then the leak will be quickly forgotten — just as the Conservatives» sharp tactics during the AV referendum and House of Lords reform will be, and indeed have been.

He may have secured an AV referendum for his party during negotiations with the Tories, but he secured nothing for the electorate except pain.

It means that Labour supporters could easily decide the AV referendum.

Lord Falconer claims Labour is not trying to block the AV referendum but explains why fellow Opposition peers are holding up the legislation to enable the planned vote in May.

• Historic victory gives SNP working majority in Scotland • Overwhelming «no» vote in AV referendum on 40 % turnout • Collapse for Nick Clegg; triumph for David Cameron

He is then asked about the AV referendum and a possible election pact to fill the seat that was taken away from former immigration minister Phil Woolas.

The deal between Nick Clegg and David Cameron was that Tories would deliver an AV referendum and, in return, the Lib Dems would vote for fair constituency sizes.

He calls for Labour, Greens and Liberal Democrats to come together to win the AV referendum so that they can then come together and exclude the Conservatives from power:

James Landale describes the all - night Lords sitting as peers discuss the bill to allow an AV referendum due in May.

Losing the AV referendum was a «bitter disappointment, not just to me, but to Liberal Democrats all over the country».

Senior Conservatives have already questioned whether he wants to remain in his post after he launched a «theatrical» outburst against David Cameron and George Osborne in a Cabinet meeting over their refusal to denounce tactics used by the No campaign in the AV referendum.

The emerging anti-government movement which is the shining hope of extending democracy should not be encouraged to campaign or support a device (the av referendum) aimed to curtailing reform by limiting itself to a «reform» that is actually worse than the status quo.

What's more, there is no way Clegg could have got the Lib Dems on board without an AV referendum at the very least.

You claim that the AV referendum is aimed to curtail reform, but haven't substantiated this claim.

We will also campaign against the AV referendum - this would make Clegg the kingmaker for evermore - getting full PR would allow a broader coalition to come to power, whilst AV would simply cement the centre - right into power for the forseeable future.

Reid took a leading role in the campaign for a «No» vote in the 2011 AV referendum, appearing alongside Conservative Prime Minister, David Cameron.

During the course of the AV referendum campaign over the last couple of months, numerous supporters of the Yes campaign have variously claimed that polls which give a cursory explanation of the system before asking the voter whether they support AV - which have generally shown larger numbers opposing the change - are a «complete misrepresentation», «loaded» or «flawed».

This is hardly surprising given the AV referendum's origins in Nick Clegg's «miserable little compromise».

[10] Others proposed that it should be held on 5 May 2011, together with both the Assembly elections and the AV referendum.

Liberal Democrats voted for the boundary review that should give the Conservatives up to twenty extra MPs at the next election and in return he delivered on holding the AV referendum.

I personally think the AV referendum is lost because Nick Clegg (and I mean Nick Clegg personally) has alienated masses of Labour voters who might otherwise have supported it.

Labour Peers are not trying to stop the AV referendum which ought to be in a separate bill anyway.

Then Balls intervened: «The Chief Whip thinks it could be difficult to get the AV referendum through.

They were late and while we waited, rumours - later confirmed - reached us that the Conservatives were to make a new offer to us to hold a whipped vote in the Commons on an AV referendum, in return for a full coalition.

In 2011, former research secretary Richard Mabey produced a paper with Bernard Jenkin MP on the Alternative Vote system [17] «Death of the Conviction Voter - Fairness and Tactics under AV», which was often cited during the 2011 AV referendum debate and was seen as being an influential contribution to the thinking of the «NOtoAV» campaign.

The AV referendum and the North East Regional Assembly referendum were also very hostile affairs but, again, both secured higher turnouts than expected.

For the first time since YouGov started asking the question, the number of people saying they would vote «no» in the AV referendum was higher than those who would support it.

I felt, however, that the «whispering campaign» from those bearing personal grudges against me meant that my role in the 2010 General Election was limited (at some cost to the party) and I did not help the AV referendum campaign in any significant way.

The Huhne speech will confirm to parliament observers that relations between the former leadership contender and his Conservative colleagues were irreparably damaged by the AV referendum, when he broke ranks to publicly criticise Tory ministers for their strategy.

Even more critical for Clegg is the AV referendum in May.

It is a bizarre feature of the AV referendum that it was actually proposed by neither of the parties who won the 2010 election, and who now form the government, but emerged as a last gasp from the bunker of the man who lost.

This led to our defeat in the AV referendum, as the «Yes» campaign sought to use reason and our opponents deployed negative tactics to deadly effect.

I see that he's positioning himself to campaign alongside Clegg in the AV referendum.

But the agenda failed its first serious test in the defeated AV referendum, and now it has failed on the Lords too.

Just above this post Paul Goodman speculates at the consequences for David Cameron if First Past The Post is defeated in the AV referendum.

Cameron reneged on his private promise to even - handedness in the AV referendum last year, and now he has reneged on his promise to deliver Clegg's reform.

If they lose the AV referendum [on electoral reform], [the Tories] will give them the House of Lords very quickly.»

As the date of the AV referendum is confirmed, Anthony Barnett looks back to a speech he made, urging the Durham Union to vote for change.

The AV referendum can be seen as the end of this political cycle.