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From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2005-06-03.:

"I've lost count of the number of assurances politicians have offered us that they will, truly they will, ensure the creation of a reliable and nationally acceptable form of proportional representation the moment we vote them into power.

"So we do and lo and behold, the magic dust of the Great Parliamentary Fairy is thrown into the eyes of the winners, and they forget all about their pre-election promises. They just get more and more drunk bingeing on the headiest drug there is. Power. And bugger what the voters really want."

-- "Agony aunt" Claire Rayner, in "Liberal Democrat News", London, 20th May 2005.

(submitted to the mailing list by Frank Little)