The NO on AV battle really begins

In May, there will be a referendum on the Alternative Vote system for picking Members of Parliament at the next election in 2015. This was the price the Liberal Democrats required to join a Coalition government with the Conservatives. Conservatives are virtually unanimously in favor of a NO vote, LibDems (of course) for a YES vote.

‎Today 114 of 253 Labour MPs are publicly supporting No on AV. Leading the campaign will be William Hague, John Prescott, Ken Clarke, Margaret Beckett, David Blunkett, Baroness Warsi, John Reid, and Lord Falconer. The big GMB union is also pleading substantial funding for the NO campaign.

If the voters of England can be coaxed out to vote, AV CAN be defeated! I wonder what the LibDems will do then . .