Grab and change it, it's yours

[venta]

Does anyone know what the actual text which is actually going to appear on the actual ballot papers on May 5th is? A bit of googling hasn't turned up any results for me, but the pages I was finding suggest to me that I may have been going about my searching in the wrong way.

I'm kind of assuming that the ballot paper will look broadly like this:

[Poll #1729575]

Now, lots of campaigners would have you believe that this is analogous to:

[Poll #1729576]

And lots of other campaigners would have you believe it's analogous to:

[Poll #1729577]

You'll notice that the second two polls allow the results to be interpreted as pol(l)ar opposites.

So, does anyone know exactly what the question is? More to the point, has the government made any commitment at all about what they're going to do with the results, how they'll be interpreted, or whether Cameron will (in fact) go "oh, that's nice" and carry on regardless with the existing system?

Comments

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

Yes! Sadly I'd been living in the UK for slightly too long to submit an absentee vote on that one (only by a couple of months IIRC).

Much as the new system was a mad strawman invented by Howard to create a bias towards the status quo, I still would have voted in favour of it. Really though, I just wanted the governor general to be renamed, selected the same way he/she is now, and no longer rubber stamped by the Queen.