Bickster, If I understood correctly, you still intend to vote "No"? Given that a no vote is effectively a vote in favour of FPTP, would you not be better off spoiling your ballot paper / not voting in order to register dissatisfaction at both choices? Apologies if you already covered this.
No, I actually think FPTP is a better system than AV on the grounds that it doesn't marginalise small parties as much. Plurality of opinion is important and anything that marginalises (as AV surely does) smaller parties is not good, its not "better" and its not "fairer". I don't accept the idea that AV will make people "pander" to supporters of other parties in this country that simply won't happen, you need more than two large parties and a third "balance of power" party for that to happen. What will happen is that the Third (by quite some distance) party will always hold more power than the second placed party unless those two parties combine to have a coalition over the first placed party in which case the most favoured party doesn't get to form a Govt. AV will place too much power in the hands of the third placed party in this country. It simply isn't sensible to be used in a country such as ours. Which is why its a bad system for Australia and a good system for Papua New Guinea (lots of small parties split on a tribal basis) It's usefulness is in a country where there are lots more parties with more equal standing to each other. We should use its first cousin the single transferable vote in the EU elections for that reason. It is of no use in domestic elections.
If there was a third No option of "I want electoral reform but AV is not the answer" I'd vote that, but as someone else pointed out, they are too shit scared to put that as an option.
Fair enough I don't necessarily agree but I can see where you're coming from and it's a fair enough position.