It is imaginative, but I think it solves one problem by creating several worse ones. The first is that it would split democratic legitimacy in two. The Commons would still be elected on a constituenc… (View Post)

If MPs now provide poor representation, that seems to me an indictment of our political class and party discipline, not proof that the representative principle itself is a joke. My objection to PR is… (View Post)

d'hondt you forget about me (View Post)

Bad drivers are not, by themselves, proof the road layout is wrong. The last decade is certainly not a ringing endorsement of the quality of governments produced under FPTP. But it does not follow th… (View Post)

Yes, and that is exactly the vice of it. It turns representation into shopping. (View Post)