I always believed in electoral reform but could never get too het up about it. Terribly boring when voting nerds started debating their models - and I really like the constituency link. MP involvement is one of the few things that has a concrete effect in immigration cases.
But I think that's changed over the last few weeks. Our system is catastrophically, intolerably, comprehensively fucked.
The conversations I've heard over the last few weeks are just not acceptable. People being forced to vote for parties they detest to stop something worse. Countless voters completely disenfranchised.
It was a bad system during normal times. Now that the two parties have deteriorated so badly, it is properly intolerable.
They'll never give it up. It offers Labour and the Tories a stranglehold on the electorate. But electoral reform is a precondition for all sorts of other honourable political values. It's as important an issue as you can imagine.
