Yeah, but I'm still not interested in having different bums on seats if they all belong to identikit parties which are incapable of delivering what the majority of voters want. Punish them for being shit, by all means - brilliant - but if the only alternative is to elect someone who will be equally shit because their party is just as shit ... well, it doesn't get my juices flowing.
Fair enough, if you think all the parties are the same AV unlike FPTP isn't going to help get a minority party into power. I do agree with Adrian Ramsay the Green's deputy leader that voting NO will be used as an indicator that people are happy with the current way in which politics is run.
"If you vote No in this referendum, nobody would know whether you were rejecting AV because you wanted genuine reform, or were simply opposing any reform. We think the only logical vote for reformers is to vote Yes to AV, because everyone who does so is clearly showing that they're unhappy with the current system. "