The author of this article has said the STV system is “complicated”. As it is successfully used by many countries around the world to suggest the British electorate can’t understand it is rather insulting. The STV system of Proportional Representation isn’t rocket science, it prevents one party after getting only 30% of the vote having the distorted effect of a huge parliamentary “majority”, and it enables proper checks and balances on governments and helps to prevent them from ignoring overwhelming public opinion – an example would most probably have been the Iraq War. It would bring our arrogant politicians down off their self-imposed pedestals and make them listen to the ordinary much more than they do at present.
Once we have PR in the House of Commons we can then start on the totally unelected, half hereditary and half appointed, House of so-called Lord.
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