Like, Unlike, Dislike

According to Baroness Warsi on Any Questions, the No campaign in the AV referendum is being supported by "Liberals like David Owen". Lord Owen is in fact calling for a No vote because he wants STV, whereas I see a No vote as the end of all prospect of electoral reform while anyone now of voting age is still alive.

In any case, if the question is which system best keeps out the BNP or some such, then AV is actually the best of all, whether First Past The Post, STV, party lists, or whatever. Don't take my word for it. Ask the BNP. Or, if you prefer, ask the Communist Party. Such are Sayeeda Warsi's allies, the only entire parties with which the one chaired by her is allied, in the No campaign.

But "Liberals like David Owen"? Rod Liddle expressed his scorn at that utterance, but she did not reply. There is a "don't mention the War" attitude to the SDP, a major contributing stream into the present Political Class, along with the 1970s sectarian Left and the 1980s Radical Right, both of which we are also forbidden to mention.