Time to swallow some pride...

It's time the general public new the reality of our political structure. There is one party that sells a dream of the right, a self determined dream of looking after ones wealth. One of low tax and a protecting the wealthy. Over the years several parties have emerged who challenge this. From Labour and the Liberal Democrats we also have the Greens and now the devolved states parties of the SNP and Plaid Cymru. At the last General Election the popular vote that brought the Tories to power was 13.9 Million votes. If we combine all of the other parties their total of votes comes to 16.1 Million. The first past the post seat is designed to benefit the broad church parties. It used to work with a broad Labour support but that has wained. We now know more and have more ideologies and sense of which party beat represents us. One of the key reasons the Tories are horrified of their party falling apart. 

If we are going to see change, we need to accept a different approach. We need to accept a grown up conversation about devolution but more importantly we need to see real leadership and let's ensure the Tories are not allowed to remain in power at the sake of political ego, pride or dreams. Every major party now backs proportional representation as the future of our voting system so let's make that a reality and rebuild our democracy where every vote counts.