1) It is not complicated. You can describe First Past The Post in a way that makes it sound complicated. You can explain toast in a way that makes it sound complicated. You are not too stupid to figure out how to vote. Well, apart from you. You know who you are.
2) Because of the nature of safe seats, marginals and the constituency boundaries, on average under FPTP around 100,000 people decide who governs a nation of 60 million. That is fucking retarded, and it's not fair. AV is fairer.
3) The idea that AV will make people vote more tactically is half-baked and nonsensical. It allows you to vote for your favorite, and then who you'd find palatable if you can't have that. FTFP makes you vote for whoever stops the one you hate from getting in. That is not the same thing as choice.
4) The coalition government will not break up regardless of which way the vote goes. It was in the deal that formed it, along with all sorts of things that both conservatives and lib dems don't like and don't agree on, but they've formed an amalgam in order to function as a government. Just because we haven't had a coalition government in a while doesn't mean we should all forget how politics works. A 'no' vote does not get rid of the conservative government. There are reasons to vote no, but that is not one.
5) It really isn't going to cost that much more, and seeing as how it's deciding who's running the country, I don't mind paying a bit extra to make it fairer.
6) I do, however, have sympathy for the counters, because their job will be more time consuming. Also David Dimbleby as he'll have to stay up even later on election night, but it's only once every four years.
So I'm voting yes.
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