Boundary tinkering won't fix a broken electoral system | Letters

Forget redrawing constituency boundaries, just implement proportional representation, writes
Alan Fowler. Plus letters from
Phil Tate and
David Nowell
‘The fact remains that, due to the distortions of our first past the post voting system, these changes will do nothing whatsoever to correct the absurdity of the existing democratic deficit.’ Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty
‘The fact remains that, due to the distortions of our first past the post voting system, these changes will do nothing whatsoever to correct the absurdity of the existing democratic deficit.’ Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty
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Wed 9 Jun 2021 12.35 EDT
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Electoral demographics are changing dramatically and yet the Boundary Commission is busily shuffling deckchairs while the ship of democracy lies becalmed (UK electoral officials announce biggest shake-up of boundaries in decades, 8 June).

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