N E Beds Campaign for REAL Democracy

5.30.00pm BST (GMT +0100) Mon 20th Jun 2005

At the General Election the UK share of the vote for the main parties was

Labour 35% Conservative 32% Liberal Democrats 22%

Yet our electoral system gave Labour a 97 seat majority over the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives. This gives them the power to take all decisions in government and introduce any laws the Labour party wants. All this is based on only 22% support from those eligible to vote. *

It is deeply undemocratic. Which is why Liberal Democrats are leading the call for voting reform. Please join me in campaigning for fair votes, through a system of local MPs elected by proportional representation.

You can support that by signing two petitions currently running.

Votes for all (independent pressure group)

http://www.makemyvotecount.org.uk

The Independent (newspaper)

http://www.independent.co.uk/cfd/democracy.jsp

You can also join the only major party pressing for voting reform by following this link:

http://www.libdems.org.uk/support/

Thank you for your help.

Make My Vote Count

Stephen Rutherford

Parliamentary Campaigner

N E Bedfordshire

See also:

Link to Charles Kennedy's campaign page:

http://www.libdems.org.uk/campaigns/campaign.html?id=6595&navPage=campaigns.html

• all results taken from BBC results service