TUC General Secretary Brendon Barber in the new report Getting it in Proportion? argues that “voting systems can have a real impact on the lives of ordinary people.”
Reform, to quote Barber, is now “not just a ‘chattering class’ issue.” The TUC has not even discussed the matter of reform for 50 over years.
Willie Sullivan from the Vote for a Change campaign said “We welcome the unions stepping up to the biggest debate in Westminster. Groups that have never given electoral reform a second thought are standing up to be counted. This isn’t about pie charts or acronyms. This is about the quality of government, the quality of our MPs and the ultimately the power we all have come polling day.”
Getting it in Proportion? Trade Unions and Electoral Reform is available to download at www.tuc.org.uk/extras/touchstoneelectoralreform.pdf
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