I blame Tony Blair

[lovingboth]

Not for the usual reasons but because of the failure to introduce PR when he had the power to do so following 1997. He had said he would, of course.

But Labour went 'Oooh, we've won big' and preferred the certainty of giving the Tories absolute power on just over a third of the vote in future to the certainty of having to share power themselves.

If there are any Labour MPs who would oppose electoral reform, can they please move to Scotland, now?

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[porsupah.livejournal.com]

This, I suspect, lies behind Lord Ashcroft's newfound passion for electoral reform. I'd naturally still support some form of proportional representation, regardless, both out of fairness and the fact that it would open the gates to a great deal more political diversity (in my case, the Greens).