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The Yes campaign was somewhat naive and the No campaign played dirty. The new system was apparently going to cost £50m more per election, so they put up loads o
by Brakenshire 11y ago
The Yes campaign was somewhat naive and the No campaign played dirty. The new system was apparently going to cost £50m more per election, so they put up loads of posters showing children in incubators and soldiers wearing body armour, saying effectively 'these people will die if AV is introduced':
http://nicktyrone.com/sick-baby-billboard/ http://nicktyrone.com/sick-baby-billboard/
- danieltillett 11y agoI am surprised that the Yes campaign didn't suggest saving 10x as much by getting rid of all elections and asking the Queen to come back as an absolute monarch. I guess we Australian can't be too smug as we voted no in a referendum in 1988 asking if we wanted freedom of religion. Apparently the FUD then was over funding for religious schools.