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Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

I had a speech prepared to deliver today, but I do not think that I shall need it; I am using another. Let us go over what happened. When I first heard of the proposals, I got together with the County Press, the island's weekly paper, and Isle of Wight Radio, our local radio station, to see how ““we”” could fight ““them””. It was energising to do that. We all met representatives from the island's Labour party and Liberal Democrats—and, of course, the Conservatives—as well as the chamber of commerce, and the One Wight campaign was formed. We appointed a non-political spokesman, Richard Priest, who has done an admirable job of fronting the campaign.