Give voters choice; You Say Email:letters@liverpoolecho.co.uk.IN his conference speech Gordon Brown announced a package of constitutional reforms including holding a referendum on whether to replace the first past the post voting system with the Alternative Vote (AV) . While AV would give voters more choice, it is not proportional. Promising a referendum after the general election is meaningless, why would anyone, other than the Lib Dems, be so stupid to trust Labour ? Remember when Labour promised this in 1997? What happened? Nothing! At our annual assembly Liberal Party members voted to campaign for a referendum on proportional representation proportional representation: see representation. proportional representation Electoral system in which the share of seats held by a political party in the legislature closely matches the share of popular votes it received. to be held at the same time as the general election. The British people should be able to decide on the merits on the merits adj. referring to a judgment, decision or ruling of a court based upon the facts presented in evidence and the law applied to that evidence. A judge decides a case "on the merits" when he/she bases the decision on the fundamental issues and considers of the issue, irrespective of the party with or without a majority in Westminster Cllr Steve Radford, Liberal Party NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. |
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