There is once again a familiar call for the introduction of proportion representation as the way to fix British Politics. Oh no it won't...
Everywhere it applies, PR means professional politicians doing cosy deals amongst themselves in order to stay nose down at the trough.
By all means let's reform the FPTP system so that we get genuinely elected Prime Ministers - and key manifesto promises on matters such as referendums and tax rates can only be abandoned - after holding a referendum.
Maybe we should have a PM elected by a simple majority of the UK vote - without anything contrived like electoral colleges to fudge around the possibility that the "wrong" person might get selected by sheer populism, as far as the "establishment" was concerned. Let's trust the people to make the decisions for once - the politicians' gentlepersons club has properly cocked it up when left to its own devices for too long.
PR means that the ruling clique will be able to pick/choose elements of an amorphous fudge of policy, and never be held properly accountable - ever again!
PR is not any sort of solution, it will only compound the worst aspects of "professional" politics.
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