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TORIES COULD BUY ELECTION SWINDLE – TYLER |
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Tuesday, 13 November 2007 |
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TORIES COULD BUY ELECTION SWINDLE – TYLER
The combination of targeted funding of a select few marginal constituencies, together with the built-in distortions of the present voting system, is likely to produce a fraudulent result at the next general election, Lord (Paul) Tyler has warned Ministers.
Speaking in the House of Lords, Lord Tyler said: “Imagine the public reaction and further disengagement if one party clearly wins the popular vote, and is clearly first past the post, but another forms a new Government with a clear majority of MPs. The system will have failed even on its own terms. What a swindle! That would make Parliament truly illegitimate.”
Lord Tyler explained that 800,000 voters in marginal constituencies could decide an election against the national trend. “One man has perfected the art of tactical targeting”, he told Peers. “Lord Ashcroft bankrolled Conservative candidates in selected seats in the years leading up to the 2005 general election. His huge investment paid off. Peter Bradley, former Labour MP for The Wrekin, has established that 24 of the 36 Conservative gains were paid for with the Ashcroft millions. This country has not seen such deliberate and successful vote-buying since the rotten boroughs were swept away in 1832.” |
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75% OF ELECTORATE DENIED ‘BASIC RIGHT’ - TYLER |
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Thursday, 25 October 2007 |
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75% OF ELECTORATE DENIED ‘BASIC RIGHT’ - TYLER
Liberal Democrat Shadow Minister for Constitutional Affairs, Lord (Paul) Tyler today (Thursday) said three quarters of the British public was being denied the basic right to have an impact on the outcome of elections.
Speaking in anticipation of the Prime Minister’s speech on liberty and the Human Rights Act, Lord Tyler called on the government to publish its long-awaited review of electoral systems in the United Kingdom and told Peers: “It is surely an absolute basic right of every British citizen to be confident that his or her vote is equal in value to that of every other citizen. Surely in a representative democracy that is a very basic citizens’ right.”
The Minister, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, reiterated his promise to publish the review by the end of the year but rejected proportional systems of election for the House of Commons saying he remained a “first past the post-er”. |
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CORNISH HOME RULE? "PROOF IN THE PUDDING" |
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Tuesday, 23 October 2007 |
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CORNISH HOME RULE?
"PROOF IN THE PUDDING"
Liberal Democrat Peer, Lord (Paul) Tyler this week took Ministers to task over their intentions for local government in Cornwall.
Exchanges in the House of Lords saw the Government reaffirm its commitment to devolving powers – on a whole range of issues, including transport – to “sub-regions”. Speaking in the Chamber, Lord Tyler slammed Conservative economic regions, like the South West, as “artificial creations” and said that areas such as Cornwall and Northumberland clearly had a “distinct, historic and geographical identity” and are “clearly sub-regions in that sense”.
He challenged the Government further to give power to new local authorities so that they could pilot a local income tax to replace what he called the “failed Conservative council tax model”.
This morning, Lord Tyler met with all five of Cornwall’s MPs to discuss the Minister’s response. The six agreed that Ministers were still ‘making the right noises’ about devolution to Cornwall and said they would keep the pressure on as the process continues. |
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"CASH FOR SILENCE" SCANDAL ON TOXIC FUMES |
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Thursday, 18 October 2007 |
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"CASH FOR SILENCE"
SCANDAL ON TOXIC FUMES
Liberal Democrat Peer, Lord (Paul) Tyler today (Thursday) revealed a secret agreement between British Aerospace and two Australian airlines. Signed in 1993, the deal saw BAe pay East West Airlines and Ansett Transport Industries some AUS$750,000 to silence the airlines about what it terms “the cabin environment problem”.
Lord Tyler has pursued this issue, with respect to BAe 146 aircraft, for seven years but British Aerospace and Government Ministers have always denied there was a problem. Most recently, in a 2006 written answer to him, Ministers said they were unaware of the secret agreement referred to in the Lords today. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 18 October 2007 )
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