A worse service at greater cost - New Labour's epitaph

This article from the EDP is a pretty spot-on analysis of the poor state our electoral system has got into under New Labour.

Their obsession with making it easier for people to vote means that they have ignored one of the basic principles of democracy - the need to avoid fraud so that we have confidence in the outcomes.

The one thing that is not mentioned in that article is that as well as compromising electoral integrity, New Labour have massively increased the amount it costs to run elections. Those who are involved this year will vouch for that.

"A worse service at greater cost" should be the epitaph on the New Labour tombstone.