All my adult life I have thought that proper proportional representation would be the fairest way to do things.
Imagine if the numbers of MPs in the House of Commons properly reflected the total votes cast for each party as listed in the table here. Such a mechanism would force MPs to work together, rather than allowing one political philosophy or another to bludgeon its way through by itself while ignoring more than 50% of the population.
“First past the post” worked once upon a time. However, in the 21st century it is no way for a proper modern inclusive democracy to act. As for the weak government argument, don’t make me laugh – it simply tends to produce a bullying government.
I therefore make a plea for co-operation.
I hope that either the Tories or Labour can come to realise the justice of this argument, and start working with the smaller political parties to give the British people a properly representative government, one that truly reflects the electorate’s wishes – after all it is us, the taxpaying electorate, who pay all the bills, so we should be heard!!!!
