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    PaulB the blog I am uploading later is on AV.

    The short answer to the points that you raise are as follows:
    1/ AV will not impact at all on 'safe seats' but will have its greatest impact in marginal heavily contested seats.
    2/ Those who vote for the loony fringe, fruitcake candidates and extremists will have their preferences counted again and again. Support a major party and it wont be worth using second/third preference votes. Do you really want BNP voters to have a greater say that Conservative or Labour voters?

    I do agree with you though that there are far too many safe seats and that is an issue that needs addressing. This is being done in the reduction in the number of MPs and 'levelling out' of voter numbers between seats with the more frequent boundary reviews. The proportion of safe seats will be significantly reduced.

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