Voting change
Sir, —There is, of course, a degree of relevance to all the points you make regarding the Royal Commission’s recommendations. However, the over-all impression of your editorial (December 17) implies that the writer is averse to change. One has to ask if such an inference is objective or just implies that the writer has a vested interest in the status quo. The majority of M.P.s do not want proportional representation, nor their parties. Many interests do not want a people representation that gives the majority a greater say in Government decision-making. Why should not minorities have a proportional effect in government? What kind of “stability” allows a party elected with a minority of votes to become the Government that fails to control issues like the Springbok tour? The scream for change comes from a method of voting that sees the majority denied government representation. Such may be seen to be democracy, it is not democracy, it is politics bordering on farce. —Yours, etc., L. J. ROBINSON. December 17, 1986.
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