Liberal Democrats will be putting electoral reform at the top of the list in discussions about working with either of the other two parties now that we have a hung parliament. There are several options for proportional representation but on a straight share of the vote basis we should have had 150 seats rather than the 59 we did win.

Reform for the Speakers seat too. Local Liberal Democrats are pressing the party leadership to include reform of the ‘convention’ that the main parties do not stand against The Speaker in General Elections.  At our annual conference last year we secured support for the idea that the Speaker should become the MP for an honorary constituency so that electors in his former constituency could have their full democratic rights restored. Now is the time to put this support into action.  Over 1,000 electors spoilt their ballot papers as a protest in the Buckingham constituency in Thursday’s election and we have received countless emails, texts and phone calls calling for change.

You can register you support for such a change at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=118598158159917