Local Labour Councillor Andrew Burns recently posted about the Vote For A Change campaign. He's supporting it, and so I thought I'd write to my local Labour MP Gavin Strang to see if he'll support it too. I look forward to his response.

In the meantime, you might want to check out the Vote for A Change campaign at www.voteforachange.co.uk

"Dear Gavin Strang,

In the wake of the recent Westminster expenses scandal, I am writing to you to ask that you support calls for a reform of the voting system. I'm asking you to support calls by the campaign group "Vote for a Change" (http://www.voteforachange.co.uk/) for a referendum at the next election on whether some form of proportional representation should be adopted for electing Westminster MPs.

It is clear that the current First Past the Post system is increasingly anachronistic, and gives a disproportionate amount of power to a tiny group of swing voters. I believe that this would help to make parliament more accountable to all UK voters.

Making the switch to a proportional system will help to clean-up Westminster, but only alongside other measures too. I hope that you will also support measures to promote greater transparency, disclosure and reform of the MPs allowances system, and I'd be most grateful if you could let me know what action you are taking on this issue."