A lively debate regarding the Alternative Vote referendum. Featuring Tony Robinson of Time Team and Blackadder fame.
If you are as clueless as we are about how to vote, then come along to The Great AV Debate on TUESDAY THE 3RD OF MAY at 7.30 PM at the University of Bristol Students' Union on Queens Road, BS8 1LN.

Hosted in partnership with UBU and the Bristol Debating Union, this is sure to be a livel...y debate with passionate speakers from both sides.

Main speakers

Speaking for 'Yes to Fairer Votes':

Mary Southcott is the parliamentary & political officer of the Labour Campaign for Electoral Reform and is leading Labour Yes in the South West.

Tony Robinson is the actor best known for his role as Baldrick in the Blackadder TV series and as the presenter of Channel 4’s long running archaeological programme Time Team. Robinson is also a long-running political campaigner .

Speaking for 'No to Av'

Don Collier is Dorset's 'No to Av' coordinator; he is a Conservative councillor for Poole, a long-standing environmentalist and has stood for election as an MEP in 2009.

Nick Thomas-Symonds is a barrister and lecturer in Politics at St Edmund Hall, Oxford university. Thomas-Symonds lectures mainly on British law and Politics.

(Student speakers to be confirmed)

Keep an eye on the UBU event site for more details:
http://ubu.org.uk/events/05042011/the-great-av-debate