@TomPinch
I certainly don't see PR as a panacea, but if you're going to have a voting system it makes sense, at the very least, to have one where most people's votes actually mean something. People are surely more likely to want to engage with the process and put some effort into working out who to vote for if that's the case, than they are currently where the majority live in safe seats and can make no difference one way or the other. I also don't buy the thing about how PR would let people like Farage into government. UKIP managed perfectly well to radically change the entire course of UK history and the nature of our society and economy, without getting a single MP elected, just by exerting pressure on the Tories who had to pander to them exactly because of the wackiness of First Past The Post. A clutch of UKIP MPs in Westminster, having to articulate the supposed arguments for Brexit and have them challenged, may well have made the outcome less likely.
When people say they can't see Starmer as PM because he's 'boring' I feel like headbutting the table. Politics aside, he's just the sort of person you want in charge, serious, successful career, intelligent, not a utopian and not a bullshitter.
He is 100% a bullshitter, it's just that most people don't know it yet because the victims of his bullshit are all on the left and the media has a vested interest in ignoring it. But that aside, there always has to be some reason why people "can't see" a Labour leader as PM. Corbyn talked to the IRA. Milliband couldn't eat a bacon sandwich. I doubt there's much more to it than that TBH.