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- Yes2AV advocates still can't decide if they should have reached out to Conservatives or kicked them harder
- The story of the AV campaign
- Introduction
- After being convinced that a Yes vote would endanger his relationship with his parliamentary party David Cameron gave the order to fight the campaign with all available resources
- The pundits scoffed at the No campaign’s argument that AV was costly and complicated but market research suggested that these were the right messages and the Westminster bubble’s desire for a more sophisticated campaign was rightly ignored
- AV could only be defeated if a large number of Labour supported voted to keep First Past The Post and from the earliest days of the campaign huge efforts were made to ensure the No campaign was genuinely cross-party
- A massive Get Out The Vote operation by CCHQ that saw the Tory vote harden decisively during the campaign
- An arms length relationship between the Tory leadership and the No campaign that meant Cameron was unable to stop the targeting of the politically toxic Nick Clegg and his broken promises
- The No campaign worked hard from day one to expose the Yes campaign’s funding and its attempts to enlist charities in support of AV
- The three big winners from the No2AV campaign
Blog Choice
- Adam Smith Institute
- Anthony Wells (UK Polling Report)
- Bagehot (Economist)
- Barker and Pickard (FT)
- Benedict Brogan (Telegraph)
- Burning Our Money
- Charles Crawford
- Coffee House (Spectator)
- Con Coughlin (Telegraph)
- Cranmer's Faith and Politics
- Dan Hannan MEP (Telegraph)
- Daniel Finkelstein (£) (Times)
- Dizzy Thinks
- Douglas Carswell MP
- Ed Staite
- Guido Fawkes
- Janet Daley (Telegraph)
- John Redwood MP
- John Rentoul (Independent)
- Katharine Birbalsingh
- Labour List
- Left Foot Forward
- Lib Dem Voice
- Mark D'Arcy's Parliament (BBC)
- Mark Wallace
- Melanie Phillips (Spectator)
- Nadine Dorries MP
- Norman Tebbit (Telegraph)
- Paul Waugh (PoliticsHome)
- Roger Helmer MEP
- The Staggers (New Statesman)
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