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The Independent View: Why I’m voting Yes to AV – Simon Woolley

By Simon Woolley | Wed 23rd March 2011 - 9:55 am

I was a little surprised to be invited to be guest speaker at the Liberal Democrat spring conference last week. But the surprise was not because I’m supporting the AV Yes Vote. After all, I am vice-chair of the campaign.

It was rather because party bosses are well aware of my criticism after the main conference last September. My beef with them, expressed in the Guardian and other places, was a result of the party’s failure to do something positive about its lack of BME political representation.

Of course, I wasn’t there to talk about representation. But I did anyway. …

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Posted in Op-eds and The Independent View | Also tagged av referendum, caroline flint, nick clegg, operation black vote and william hague | 2 Comments

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