On 5th May you have a choice. You can keep the discredited First Past the Post system to elect our MPs, or you can choose a new and fairer system - Alternative Vote (AV). Back the campaign for change at www.YesToFairerVotes.org
We heard speeches from Floella Benjamin, Simon Hughes MP, John Leech MP and Gordon Birtwistle MP on how incredibly important it is that we win the Fairer Votes referendum.
As Nick Clegg has already argued, this is "a battle between reformers and conservatives" and this is our chance, our one opportunity for genuine electoral reform. By winning this referendum we can end the nonsense of safe seats for life and ensure that MPs work harder to win your votes. We can ensure that there will be no more wasted votes and that your vote will count no matter where in the country you live.
Liberal Democrats today launched their Yes to Fairer Votes campaign.
Speaking at the launch, Liberal Democrat Party President and Chair of the Liberal Democrat Yes to Fairer Votes campaign, Tim Farron said:
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We have a medieval voting system that has failed.
It's failed to give most people the MP they voted for, it's failed to hold MPs to account, it's failed even to do the one thing it was supposed to be good for - you know, delivering a majority single party government!
Commenting on John Healey's article in the Independent, in which he outlines why he will be campaigning against fairer votes, Liberal Democrat Party President and Chair of the Liberal Democrat Yes to Fairer Votes Campaign, Tim Farron said:
"John Healey is clutching at straws today as his arguments simply don't stack up. Scaremongering by telling lies about hung parliaments and how the BNP will benefit, shows just how desperate the No to AV campaign is.
Commenting ahead of the delivery of a 'save the cheque' petition to No 10 today, Lorely Burt said:
"Last year alone there were over one billion cheque transactions which shows just how widely used this form of payment still is. For tradesmen and small business, cheques are an essential method of payment as other methods can be expensive to administer.
Major sports organisations, such as the Football Association, the London Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games and the Rugby Football League, have signed up to a Charter for Action in which they pledge to make sport a welcome place for everyone.
Major sports organisations, such as the Football Association, the London Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games and the Rugby Football League, have signed up to a Charter for Action in which they pledge to make sport a welcome place for everyone.
"We take this incident extremely seriously even though there is no reason to expect a similar scale of seismic activity in the UK. I have called on the Chief Nuclear Inspector, Dr. Mike Weightman for a thorough report on the implications of the situation in Japan and the lessons to be learned. This will be prepared in close cooperation internationally with other nuclear regulators.
"It is essential that we understand the full facts and their implications, both for existing nuclear reactors and any new programme, as safety is always our number one concern."
