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April 03, 2006

Dual candidacy revisited

On the question of dual candidacy, one for the scrapbook from Lord Crickhowell

"In another place a remark made by me in response to the government statement repeated in this House on 15 June last year has been cited as evidence that I support what the Government propose. That is entirely my fault. I commented on a topic about which I then knew absolutely nothing, and was beguiled by the superficially persuasive words of the Statement. When I came to read the comments of those bodies well qualified to comment - the Electoral Commission, the Electoral Reform Society, the Richard Commission, and particularly those of the Commission appointed by the Secretary of State for Scotland, chaired by Sir John Arbuthnott - I found that I was completely wrong."

quote taken from the Electoral Reform Society's Electoral Bulletin March 2006.

Posted by pauldavies on April 03, 2006

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