Elections: Costs

Earl Ferrers Excerpts
Thursday 15th July 2010

(14 years, 4 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord McNally Portrait Lord McNally
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My Lords, there will be legislation, and legislation can be amended. I suggest that the noble Lord puts down an amendment when the Bill is before this House.

Earl Ferrers Portrait Earl Ferrers
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My Lords, in view of the coalition Government’s desire to save public money at every possible opportunity, would my noble friend not agree that an expenditure of the amount that he referred to on a referendum is a complete waste of money and that nobody understands the alternative vote system or any of the other proportional representation systems? They all understand first past the post, so why do the Government not drop this policy?