Proportional representation
Sir: 1 found your leader on proportional representation and the Liberal Party deeply disturbing. You endorsed the two-party system but spoke of the need to make the Labour and Conservative parties different in their policies. Surely you realise, as all Spectator sympathisers must realise, that a Conservative government will only conserve the latest piece of socialism? Moreover, as you rightly pointed out, the Liberal Party has in store for us parliamentary regulation of the wage to be attached to each and every job. On the other hand many Linerals are keenly aware of the efficacy of monetary management and it must be remembered that the Liberal party is opposed to such things as food subsidies and state handouts to British Leyland. This is where the single transferable vote in multi-member constituencies comes into its own. For people like the Spectator readers who belong to no one political party however they may hope differently could then discriminate between the candidates of their party instead of feeling obliged, as now, to vote for a party despite its local man. In this way we could get a free-enterprise, sound money Parliament, without having to take the risk of a Conservative government.
Roger Karn Stable Cottage, Sandpit Hall Road, Chobham, Surrey
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