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Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

I hate to have words put in my mouth by anyone, let alone the hon. Gentleman. However, he is close to my conclusion, and I will now get to it. It is that most people, if asked, would say, ““Ask us once a year what we want and what we think about how we want to be run, and then just get out of our lives and get on with it.”” That is why I welcome legislation that says that once a year we will have a general election, national elections or a referendum. I take an even more radical position. I would have, as in America, a date that everybody knows. People there can say what the dates of the presidential, congressional, mayoral or gubernatorial elections will be in 40 years' time. Everybody knows when elections are, which is when they start to look at the questions.