The question is....

The question we are to be asked in the forthcoming referendum on voting reform is "Do you want the United Kingdom to adopt the 'alternative vote' system instead of the current 'first past the post' system for electing Members of Parliament to the House of Commons?" I see problems here. Suppose you are a proponent of full proportional representation - how do you vote? AV is nowhere near what you want, but is marginally (but only marginally) more proportional than FPTP. So really you don't want either, so do you abstain - in which case your voice will not be heard nor your wishes taken into account? Which raises the next question - suppose that only say 50% of the electorate bother to vote - which would be quite a good turnout for local elections which are to be held on the same date - where does that leave things? Is there to be a threshold which has to be reached to trigger any change to AV? I can see this referendum not really satisfying anybody.