Friday, 7 May 2010

What next?

I'm sitting here feeling very deflated and rather emotional, difficult to say exactly why, apart from the obvious that I wish G. Drown would take himself and a gun into the billiard room and do the decent thing. He'd probably miss!.
I've been thinking about electoral reform because in all honesty it is a complete clusterf*ck at the moment. obviously I'm a Tory but I do have some sympathy for the SNP, Plaid Cymru and in this context the Lib Dems in particular. I hate the idea of PR as I feel it leads to weak government and far too much crap behind closed doors, so how about this for a plan?
Assume the electorate totals approximately 45 million; make 450 seats FTP, but with the boundaries redrawn so that each constituency contains 100,000 voters. This is fair, but does not address the current inequity suffered by the smaller parties. To address this I would suggest everybody be given a second vote, to cast for the PARTY of their choice, 150 further seats being available pro rata. So, for instance, on yesterday's results so far the Lib Dems would have an extra 35 seats (approx). This would give some recognition of their status. The SNP would gain a few seats too, which in my opinion is vital for the health of Scotland. Hopefully they could then build on this. I would also hope that people would feel more engaged in the whole process, as they would feel that their vote really did count.
An additional small benefit would be a reduction in the number of MPs. it would be easy and cheap to impliment and is something that DC could offer to Mr. Clegg almost instantly.
More later.

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