Labour and PR Pledge 

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 somewhat 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, so what happened ? absolutely nothing!

 At our annual Assembly Liberal Party members voted to camapign for a referendum on proportional representation to be held at the same time as the general election.

 The British people should be able to  decide on the merits of the issue, irrespective of the party with or without a majority in Westminster

 Cllr Steve Radford     Liberal Party NEC