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)

(slight rant, sorry about the length) The first job of a Commons electoral system is to choose identifiable local representatives, rooted in actual places, who can collectively sustain or dismiss a g… (View Post)