Proportional Rep

So our Prime Minister is currently lambasted as a
pants-on-fire liar for annoucing he would not be pursuing
reform of the electoral system toward proportionality.
He even went so far as to say he personnaly preferred
the first-past-the-post approach. Indeed, I feel the same way
and answered the consultation survey of the population in that
direction. But in all honesty, there are other elements to
be considered.

Regional parties - and the Bloc Québecois is one - currently
find themselves deprived of governing experience, no matter
how solid or well appreciated their representatives might be.
Surely a discouraging experience. And Mrs May and the Green party,
affiliated with a world-wide ecology mouvement, remains a
largely silent presence in the House. Is this reasonable?

Granted these actors would need to make concessions as well in joining
a coalition, some measure of proportionality in the voting system might help.
There is experience with proportionality in Europe. For France, it led to
unstable government. But for Germany, it is in force today. From the play of
numbers alone, one would expect - at the level of ideas - more seats for
the extremes at the Left or Right. But also - at the level of regional expression -
cleaner government.

There is room for discussion yet, and I might add, experimentation.
Because any liveable change would have to be gradual.

http://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/15/why-is-the-french-democracy-not-using-proportional-representation-for-election-o

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/09/economist-explains-3