Alternative Voting costs

[Oneeyedvic]

This seems to have slipped me by but is prompted by Gromit's post below where he talks about the adverts which talk about the cost of the system which they estimate to be £250 million.

HOWEVER, here's the rub. That figure includes having Electronic Counting Machines at a cost of around £100 million - something which is not needed (Australia manage fine without) and that ministers have agreed that they won't have!

They are also including the cost of a 'new' referndum - not taking into account that people are going to the polls in May anyway.

Seems like there is a lot of deception going on.....

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12564879
http://en.wikipedia.o...w_over_possible_costs

[Red_John]

they are not going to the polls "anyway", everywhere are they. My card is referendum only.

[Old_Geezer]

i don't believe my card said what it was a vote for. Didn't spot it when I looked, just assumed it was the poll referendum. Anyway if you have no electronic counter doesn't the cost of human counters wages rise instead ?

[Gromit]

I hope all those people who keep calling for a referendum on Europe will now shut up as they will be depriving our soldiers of survival equipment?

[Red_John]

well a referendum on the EU would be more use Gromit.

[Gromit]

The last one in this country was about staying in Europe and got an overwhelming YES vote. Why waste money again on tne same vote?

[Old_Geezer]

We never have had a vote on being in the EU. We got a vote on staying in the Common Market after we'd been forced in by Heath.

Besides things change, such decisions need to be reviewed at regular intervals.

[Gromit]

Keeping voting on the same issue until you get the answer you want sounds very expensive. May as well scrap the armed forces now then.

[ABerrant]

"Keeping voting on the same issue until you get the answer you want sounds very expensive."

...and yet that is the modus operandi of the EU itself - keep asking dissenting voters (Ireland, France, Netherlands) variants of the same question until their NO turns to YES.

[Gromit]

ABerrant,

Just shows the worthlessness of referendums.

At great expense those counties asked the same question and just a few months from the majority saying NO, they got a majority saying YES.

[Red_John]

don't be a plonker Gromit, we voted for the common market, not the shilo pit we have now!