I’ve blogged before about how if you are under 40, nearly half the seats in the country have never changed hands since you were born. That isn’t a system that gives real power to people’s votes. Nor is it a system in which MPs are held accountable for their behaviour.
Now this great map has been put together illustrating the point (click on map for larger version):
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Not really, Mark. It just shows that those areas are heavily Conservative or Labour. Some constituencies are 60% for one party, generation after generation, and would stay the same under single member PR. Those are the choices of the voters.