A Sense Of Proportion

People still banging on about a 10-year-old manifesto commitment are just laughable, I'm afraid. Mind you, some people I respect are in favour of PR. But I have repeatedly posted here an alternative proposal which would save First Past The Post for the House of Commons while clearing out the current Political Class and making it impossible for anything similar to emerge in the future (whereas PR would entrench that Class for ever).

Advocates of PR for the Commons tend to think in terms of the old European constituencies. Well, those are still used for top-up purposes when electing the devolved bodies in Scotland and Wales. My brother on Shetland was voting for the same lists as my uncle an hour's drive from the centre of Glasgow. What sort of "representation" is that supposed to be?

"Only a few thousand votes count," they cry. Really? Only if everyone else decides not to make our votes count. Who says that people with views like these have to vote Labour, or that people with views like these have to vote Tory, or that people with views like these have to vote Lib Dem, even though those parties do not remotely represent them? Who says that these sets of views are mutually incompatible in the first place? They aren't remotely. And now, those who hold them all, and who might very well predominate in seats previously considered safe by one party or another, have someone to vote for. Let the giant awake!