THIS country deserves electoral reform and we don’t have a minute to waste.

Now we have a referendum on May 5 where we can deliver change to the way we conduct our politics.

We have a simple choice: we can keep using the first past the post system to elect our politicians, delivering safe seats, or we can choose a new and fairer system – the alternative vote (AV).

I am saying yes to AV because I want my vote to count.

With AV, even if my first choice doesn’t win, I will still have a say in who eventually is chosen to represent me in Parliament.

I hope that the UK will realise what an incredible moment this is. It is a chance for a small change that will make a big difference.

Ian Thomas, Clinton Close, Oxford