Christian Democrats

Some adherents of a minority religious cult have declared their support for the Alternative Vote system in electing the House of Commons. "Voting systems are not value-free," proclaimed the Bishop of Exeter. "I am supporting a change on the grounds of justice and accountability"; which carries a less than intimidating moral charge coming from a member of a club with a free pass to vote in the House of Lords. "The bishops are frustrated that there is very little in the way of the moral, ethical dimension to this," said a spokesbeing for the Yes campaign, while a spokesbeing for the No campaign implicitly denied that "a sober, sensible analysis of the case for and against scrapping our current electoral system" could have any moral dimension at all. The Yes campaign does, after all, have the support of Nick Clegg, whose sense of moral outrage has proved so endearingly flexible.