A quick update on my previous blog post about the voting systems in the UK. I stated at the time that my personal preference is leaning towards compulsory voting in the UK along with a single-tranferable-vote system for electing our party in power while MP's with fairer boundries are voted for in the traditional manner but on local issues at a local level given that is their purpose in representation. I also mused, though perhaps not for long or too visibly, about whether any party would start to talk about any of the reforms necessary. At the very least in my mind there was a need for mass redressing off our constituencies to alleviate some obvious unfairness in popular percentage compared to power in house.

Now it turns out that Tories are the first to really start talking about this properly with a view to campaigning for change. While they don't talk about proportional representation, probably because they fully recognise that in voting terms they would in the current system need to form a co-allition government and would face stiff opposition from the Lib Dems as well as Labour for once, they do talk about needing to shore up the fairness of elections. Unortunately the blogger in question puts the whole integrity of such wishes in jeopardy with his choice of language.

Our bottom line is that the electoral system needs to be fairer and it needs to be reformed so that the election of a majority Conservative Government isn't such an uphill struggle

Given that not long after this they condemn Labours manipulation of power to keep electoral systems unfair for partisan ends the above statement conflicts, though I can give him the benefit of the doubt as he is probably talking in the context of Conservatives potentially being in power after the last election in a fairer system.

Further update! It turns out Labour are too playing the game of considering reform. I have stated before that Labour could clearly benefit from lowering the voting age and given how close everything looks right now it might be that they've just considered it.