I did some poking around, and found some answers - and boy, was getting the details trickier than any sensible person might have hoped. Anyway, this is what I think I now know.
The Lib Dems are proposing a form of SVT, but they would create bigger constituencies and multiple MPs being selected per constituency. So it avoids the disadvantage of PR in having nobody locally accountable, but retains the PR risk of electing some fringe weirdo for the fourth or fifth slot.
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Date: 2010-05-09 02:21 am (UTC)The Lib Dems are proposing a form of SVT, but they would create bigger constituencies and multiple MPs being selected per constituency. So it avoids the disadvantage of PR in having nobody locally accountable, but retains the PR risk of electing some fringe weirdo for the fourth or fifth slot.