Slippery Sarah

I haven't posted on the slipperiness of Sarah Teather for quite a while. One of the more recent examples is that she has started campaigning for "Fair Votes". That is a long held Liberal Democrat slogan, but it always used to be applied to proportional representation. Teather is now using it to describe the thoroughly non-proportional alternative vote system that she and her Tory allies are plotting to push through along with a wholesale boundary review next year. To use the same slogan to describe a system that not so long ago Liberal Democrats denounced as unfair shows that sarah Teather is all about spin rather than policy.