as my honourable friend said from the front bench, the labour party is absolutely firmly committed now both by the voices of the leadership and the votes and the resolutions at our party conference that we are in favour of a proportional representation system for the european parliament and i hope  that when the elections come  mr deputy speaker, and people will be arguing about why they're voting for europe on june the ninth in one boundary as opposed to another and why they've got erm  erm different rules for this election of course as indeed for the last european election because the registration will be different, allowing all kinds of erm  how can i put it foreigners in inverted commas, to vote in our elections in this country because it is the european elections that we will actually put the point across that er for the future there will be different arrangements made indeed.