WHILE risking a riposte in these pages, I would like to put in a plug for electoral reform.
Our politics is becoming (become) too confrontational with the added risk of reverting to a two-party contest.
While I know your readers might think “sour grapes” while reading this, we need a plurality to our Party system of politics.
Losing your deposit is mostly symbolic if you can afford it though does signify a threat to minority Parties in our present First Past the Post electoral system.
Parties representing distinct viewpoints play an important part in our political system.
A form of Proportional Representation where seats won tallies with votes cast would significantly improve our democracy.
Dr Peter Hirst Middlewich
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