SIR – Plans for elected Lords set out by Nick Clegg using yet another form of proportional representation, the single transferable vote (STV), despite the country wholeheartedly rejecting the alternative vote system this month (T&A, May 18)!
Is he mad? No, he is a Lib Dem obsessed with creating permanent coalition-style governance anywhere and everywhere he can con the electorate to accept his dream plan.
Coalition government offers fringe political parties the only chance they can muster to influence one of the two major parties. The Lib Dems, being the biggest fringe party, aspire to be always dictating terms to Labour or Tory, and thus remain part of the ruling pact.
Clegg’s plan is flawed within the first few lines of the report; the rest is relative minutiae concerning only numbers and the mix of elected and appointed House of Lords members.
Humbled in the Commons, Clegg attempts to poison the second chamber also. The public have amply demonstrated they do not want his style of politics.
Alan Chapman, Beck Lane, Bingley
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