To think that there will be little option but to change the current First Past The Post system after this election.

[OneNight]

The prospect of change may well have been rejected in 2011 but I am reading some new figures which estimate that in this general election, under the current UK FPTP system, the average MP could be elected with less than 46% of the votes cast. (Edinburgh West could well be won with just 25% of the votes on current predictions.)

This can not be good for democracy and I have noticed even people on this board questioning whether they'll bother to vote at all under the current system. I'm sure that voter apathy with voter turnout below 70% since 2001 could well be a result of some people thinking that their vote simply could not count.

I can't see how any party could credibly reject a change although they may well wish to argue on the shape that any change might take.

And lock Labour out of Westminister for decades.

Labour or anyone else you mean. We are not a two party state.

Won't happen. It's in neither of the two major parties' interests and while it may be more democratic and "fairer" since when had that ever had anything to do with UK politics.

I sometimes think the rotten boroughs was a better system and the Great Reform Act was a mistake.

re: boundary changes - this was due to happen in the last parliament but the Lib Dems went back on their promise to support it after the Tories went back on their promise to support reform of the House of Lords

The boundaries do need to be adjusted every so often. The party in power at the time may not be the most disinterested people to handle the operation though!