SIR - "Service before self" (Letters, May 28). I may have misunderstood Stephen Walsh's earlier letter in which he appeared to have a plan for compulsory' voting.
Mr Walsh has seen important political changes in his 82 years, though he would only have been a baby when Labour was first in government and an infant when women no longer had to be older than men (and thus "mature enough") to vote.
Mr Walsh owns up to being a Tory voter since 1946. Take his own party's example.
A former Thatcherite Government introduced proportional representation into Northern Irish local elections - the single transferable vote, as used in the Republic of Ireland.
We need such a system for local and parliamentary elections and could aspire to be as clever as the Irish in understanding it!
This is my plan. Any Joe Public can demand fair votes, Mr Walsh, which we have for Welsh Assembly, Scottish and European Parliamentary, and Scottish and Northern Irish local elections.
The Labour Government has a sizeable majority of seats on less than 40 per cent of the vote. Bradford Labour Group wanted total control of the Council Executive on only 30 per cent of the vote and they call that democracy!
John Hall, Pennithorne Avenue, Baildon
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