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John Humphries is the top BBC interviewer, what some called their 'lead interviewer'....
Normally he is well briefed and very formidable but in an interview today with David Cameron he became completely unstuck. He showed how complex AV was and how he did not understand it and he also got his facts wrong over FPTP.
It is a rarity that Humphries gets trashed like this and we should ask if he is losing his touch!
Here is a transcript I found of his interview with DC. Can't find an audio link, yet, if I do I will post one but for now here is the transcript.
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DC: If you go to an AV system you start counting some people's votes more than once. And you end up, in the words of Churchill...
JH: No you don't. It simply isn't true that you count votes more than once.
DC: Yes, you count all the votes. You start eliminating candidates, and you count people's second preferences.
JH: And I have a second preference, as well as you, as well as anyone else. So you don't count some people's votes more than others. [laughing gently at absurdity of proposition]
DC: Actually, John, you're wrong. completely wrong. That is not the way it works. It's complicated...
JH: No it's isn't! It's terribly simple.
DC: If you vote for a Labour candidate and I vote for a Monster Raving Looney candidate and he comes last...
JH: He drops out! Monster Raving Looney has gone.
DC: And my second preference vote is counted
JH: So is mine!
DC: It isn't! It isn't! That's where you're wrong, That's quite worrying if the lead broadcaster on the BBC doesn't understand the system.
JH: It's even more worrying that the Prime Minister is scaring people...
DC: You don't understand the system that you're meant to be explaining to the public. Back to school.
JH: I'll go back to school and I'll choose my teacher.
DC: Why would you want to give up [FPTP] to adopt a voting system that's only used by three countries in the world?
JH: As opposed to a voting system that's used by no other major democracy...
DC: Try America.
JH: They have primaries in the United States.
DC: We now have primaries in many constituencies in the UK. Again I find it staggering that the lead broadcaster in the BBC thinks our system is not used anywhere else in the world. You've got to change your briefer. Our system is used by half the voters in the world, John. I am absolutely staggered.
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There it is Humphries really did blow that interview.