from Dave Windsor
Writing in the August 20th issue of Co-o News, Geoffrey Rhodes, M.P., a regular columnist for that paper, had this to say about a possible Lib-Lab understandings. "....Harold Wilson has a major Trump card. He knows the Liberals realise that they must increase their Parliamentary strength by 20 or more if they are to have a useful future. Wilson also knows the Liberals believe that the alternate vote eeewould enable them to do just that....Wilson can also help to keep several Liberals in Parliament by the withdrawal (in effect, if not actually in fact) of Labour efforts in their constituencies, He could put some Liberal candidates into Parliament by precisely the sane process. J an convinced that the Liberal leader would settle for a limited bargain on these lines." (emphasis in the original