Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

[sir_guinglain]

I've just watched some of yesterday's Lords debate on the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill. If Ed Milliband was looking for examples of Liberal Democrats held hostage in the Conservatives' car boot, there were no better ones than Lords Wallace of Tankerness and McNally, huddled close on the government front bench without a Conservative in sight, while opposition peers - led by former lord chancellor and present shadow justice minister Lord Falconer of Thoroton - laid into the lack of research behind the government's proposals for the equalization of representation and the flaws in the government case, drawing on research by (among others) Lewis Baston published at the LSE politics and policy blog. Wallace, speaking for the government, was unable to refute many of Falconer's charges. A sad state of affairs for the party of democratic reform.