Those who recommend we should all vote for an independent candidate overlook some serious arguments against it.

First of all, consider the situation at the first meeting of a council of independents.

Whom would they choose to lead them, that is if they should agree to have a leader at all?

The next problem would be to agree upon a collective programme unless, of course, they decided every issue would be decided as it arose.

The more they agreed upon a future programme, the more they would become an "Independent Party", of course.

The present system, with all its faults, whereby a party submits to us promises of what it will do if given power and we make an intelligent choice, remains the best available.

-RG Jenkins, Hove