Plans to change the way MPs are elected have been overwhelmingly rejected by voters. More than two thirds of people voted to reject the Alternative Vote (AV) system in the first UK-wide referendum for 36 years. 

Nick Griffin and the British National Party have a clear, strong message for you: "Turn out and vote in large numbers to bury AV on May 5." 

With just over two days to go before the polls open for elections in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England, Nick Griffin has issued a rallying call to all British National Party members to make one last sustained effort to get the maximum British National Party vote. 

By Stephen Palmer – For a referendum that is supposed to be about “fairer votes” and “more democracy”, it is ironic that the choice on offer in the coming AV poll is practically no choice at all. 

The British National Party will call on its supporters to vote “no” in a referendum on changing Britain’s electoral system to the Alternative Voting (AV) system because it is fundamentally unfair to smaller parties.

The British National Party will call on its supporters to vote “no” in a referendum to be held next year on changing Britain’s electoral system to the Alternative Voting (AV) system because it is fundamentally unfair to smaller parties.

Under a true proportional representation system, the British National Party would already have twelve seats in parliament, a leading anti-BNP academic has warned.

As part of his deal to become deputy Prime Minister, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has abandoned his party’s policy of introducing a proportional representation “single transferable vote” (STV) system for the “alternative vote” (AV) system which the Electoral Reform Society (ERS) has dismissed as “even more disproportional than the first-past-the-post” system.

So the election dust has now settled, and from our point of view there are four key outcomes:

First, the resulting hung Parliament and political instability will rapidly add to Gordon Brown’s economic disaster. The Bank of England prediction that whoever won this election will end up being “out of power for a generation” is now going to apply to two of the three old parties. That’s bad news for Britain, but good news for us.