Thank you.
Given the—very few, I would say—tangible benefits of going down this road, when we start talking about flexible fixed election dates I'm left with the conclusion that this is much ado about nothing. If we want to keep certain aspects of our current system that allow flexibility, require responsible government, require the confidence of the House, we are left with a fixed election date that isn't fixed. This leads to the conclusion that there are much more important, more fundamental things that a government can be doing to address the democratic deficit than moving to fixed election dates.
So it comes back to our general point here today from the Green Party, which is that while we see no particular reason to oppose it, we also don't see why we should invest all these resources in moving ahead with it when there are others, such as proportional representation, such as looking at how within each party we can be getting more candidates from visible or non-visible minorities, more gender balance, etc..... I would rather see the effort go into that.