Spending rules, OK!

This is doing the rounds at the moment and I think it's worth repeating here. Go to Neil Herron's site for more:

Referendum spending rules 'unfair to No vote'(Filed: 25/11/2004)

Spending rules governing the referendum on the European constitution will give the Government an unfair advantage, Sam Younger, the chairman of the Electoral Commission, said yesterday.

He told an academic seminar that ministers should be banned from promoting the European Union constitution using taxpayers' money for at least 10 weeks before polling day.

Mr Younger said the rules should be changed because it would be wrong for the Government to be allowed to spend unlimited sums highlighting the advantages of the constitution at a time when the organisations campaigning against it could not.