Time is right for electoral reform

Dear Sir, - While appreciating the work our MP Fiona Bruce has done concerning opposing cuts to our educational system, I can't help but wonder whether the whole saga could have been avoided.

I am sure it was not deliberate, though it looks to me like cuts by central government were reversed because local MPs of the same party asked it to.

We have a "listening Government" but apparently only when its policies are doing harm to their own members' political interests.

Political considerations appear to be paramount in any decision that requires a parliamentary majority to get it through.

Surely now is the time to seriously consider electoral reform that introduces a proportional voting system before our whole system of government goes into chaos, paralysis and terminal decline.

In my view, this should be part of a wider goal of a codifi ed constitution that details the powers of all layers of government that is overseen by a constitutional court and is drawn up by a representative sample of the electorate. - Yours faithfully,

(DR) PETER HIRST

Middlewich.