I was thinking in terms of party A saying "because so many put B down as third preference, we're now in a coalition with them rather than a majority government, so it's all gone wrong but hey, that's what the electorate wanted, so *shrug*", possibly with some kind of exaggerated hand-wringing motion or nonchalant whistling.
Personally, I would rather that BNP supporters felt lonely and isolated, rather than having delusions of grandeur. The moment the BNP in the UK thinks it's got a fighting chance of replicating le Pen's small but significant victories in France, they might suddenly turn out to be right.
(From this you can tell that I take a pragmatic view of democracy: it's a means to an end, not the end in itself. An electoral system that lets the BNP gain power is a wrong electoral system, even if that's the clearly-expressed will of an outright majority of the population. (-8 )
While right now the average person isn't aware that tactical voting is possible in AV, and it's a fickle business at the best of times. Unfortunately, given the number of people who will believe that there are systems to beat casinos or win the lottery, there will inevitably be people who would believe hogwash articles in the Daily Mail about how to do tactical voting.
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Personally, I would rather that BNP supporters felt lonely and isolated, rather than having delusions of grandeur. The moment the BNP in the UK thinks it's got a fighting chance of replicating le Pen's small but significant victories in France, they might suddenly turn out to be right.
(From this you can tell that I take a pragmatic view of democracy: it's a means to an end, not the end in itself. An electoral system that lets the BNP gain power is a wrong electoral system, even if that's the clearly-expressed will of an outright majority of the population. (-8 )
While right now the average person isn't aware that tactical voting is possible in AV, and it's a fickle business at the best of times. Unfortunately, given the number of people who will believe that there are systems to beat casinos or win the lottery, there will inevitably be people who would believe hogwash articles in the Daily Mail about how to do tactical voting.