What’s in a name?

We don’t know what it is about School's Secretary Ed Balls' name. But a pattern is developing in our billboard challenge. Some are suggesting he might need to grow a pair. Others that his name pretty much sums up his position on reform of the House of Commons. A couple are frankly unsuitable for a family website.

But all of them reflect genuine anger at the back stairs plotting Mr Balls is set on to derail the referendum on voting reform. We’ve asked our supporters to pick the slogan we’re taking up to Normanton to grace a billboard slamming the Schools Secretary’s hypocrisy. And the response has been pretty damn good.

We have Cabinet ministers, and even the government’s own whips, working to derail a hard fought promise we extracted from the government after six long months of campaigning. These machinations are making news, but so is our bid to expose those who talk change but keep on working behind the scenes to hold it back.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jan/14/ministers-split-electoral-reform

Our supporters are helping us make reform an election issue. Let’s keep it coming!

http://www.voteforachange.co.uk/page/s/quicksignup