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Dear John Reid…

Dear John Reid,

Is the electoral system you decry as being “unfair” in today’s Telegraph by any chance the same voting system as the one that Labour uses to elect its own party leader?

I only ask because they are both called the Alternative Vote and I haven’t noticed you complaining about Ed Miliband’s election as leader being unfair or therefore calling for your colleagues to oust him.

By the way, a little tip about Fiji, which I notice you and colleagues have become keen on quoting. It’s a military dictatorship and, you know, if you go round citing its dislike of the alternative vote as a reason to oppose it, it might just sound to someone that you are admiring the political judgement of a military dictatorship. I know Labour got a bit authoritarian under Tony Blair, but even so…

Yours etc.

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