Harlow voters have decisively rejected the Alternative Vote in the referendum, with possibly the highest no vote in the country. Close to 74% of those who voted rejected AV - 16,226 against and just 5,823 in favour of change.
For some weeks now, Conservatives have been campaigning hard in Harlow to persuade residents that Labour leader Ed Milliband and the Liberal Democrats were wrong about electoral reform: that the Alternative Vote was costly, complicated and a con. Harlow residents sensibly decided that AV was an expensive irrelevance - especially given the urgent need to sort out the economic problems we face.
The AV argument is now dead. The Coalition can get back to governing the country.
by Robert Halfon - www.roberthalfon.blogspot.com
