The UK voters have rejected a change to the current 'first past the post' by 69%, a massive blow to the Liberal Democrats after they lost over 600 councillors in the local elections earlier.
Counting continues, however over 9.8 million have voted 'no', breaching the 50% threshold, meaning the 'yes' campaign cannot win.
Leading Yes campaigners have conceded defeat. Lib Dem minister Chris Huhne told BBC News: "The rejection has been overwhelming and we accept that." Labour's Lord Reid, who backed the No campaign, said the decisive result "should put electoral reform off the agenda".
Mr Clegg told the BBC the Lib Dems were facing "the brunt of the blame" for coalition spending cuts, adding that, for some voters, they were bringing out "memories of things under Thatcher".
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I could have guessed it would get a no since there's a lot of older people who probably don't even know in depth what it is and how it works apposed to the 'first to the post' system - hell, I bet they found it kind of hard to try and find out what it was, too.
