Re: “Referendum count is not as promised,” column, Nov. 28.

Columnist Les Leyne says: “The B.C. Liberals are going to ride objections to next year’s referendum on a new vote-counting system to the bitter, proportionally representative end.”

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It sounds like a reprise of the Liberals’ disingenuous strategy for trying to hold onto power in May. Now, as then, they’re saying anything to try to stay at the head of the trough.

Remember former premier Christy Clark’s own throne-speech referendum offer? Embarrassingly shallow.

Folks were tired of 16 years of Clark’s dictatorial scamming (Google for the long list) and so the Liberals lost the election.

Perhaps folks are uninterested in their latest gambit because it is but another transparent sham. Proportional representation is polling near 70 per cent “yes” just now. The NDP/Green arrangement is demonstrating just what a co-operative, multiparty government looks like.

This referendum is not even legally necessary, but is a demonstration of a truly people-centred, consultative government.

The Liberals should stop chasing straw men and get back to earning their salaries.

Jordan Ellis

Nanaimo