Electoral Reform committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to echo what the previous presenter just said. We are all in your debt, because you choose to serve our country. We all do that in our own way. Let me make three brief comments. I heard today that the system we have is a time warp; let's co

Electoral Reform committee  Can I make one last point?

Electoral Reform committee  The last thing to say is that there is no perfect solution. We know that. Somebody said that the best solution is a benevolent dictator. Lord Acton, over 100 years ago, put that to rest when he said that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. There is no perfec