Mr Boyd, One can perhaps speculate as to the preferability of the frying pan over the fire. Yet it is not 'radical' to seek to avoid both - it is simply human survival instinct. The uselessness of our insitutions are inversely proportional to our collective attempts to challenge them. The amusing disgust at Blair of which you speak is the mark of human beings, who will always look for the better deal, however many worse deals there are to be had. And it may be prudent to remember there wouldnt be such a things as 'a vote' if every citizen in every nation had always been frozen by their graditude for whatever crumbs they were thrown from their respective dictators.

Ttrryosborn, ["Congratulations on the re-election victory of Mr. Blair. Cries of a corrupt electoral system are just sour grapes. If Mr. Blair had lost, these same people would have been fawning over the system".] Never have I read such a nonsensical and self contradictory statement than the one above. Ttrryosborn professes to believe in democracy yet dismisses the demands of tens of millions of British citizens for a fairer electoral system. When only a little over one in five of the electorate and a little over one in three of those that voted, supported New Labour and Tony Blair, this ghoulish right wing American takes it upon himself to dishonour the views and desires of millions of Brits by accusing them of expressing 'sour grapes'. Ttrry, hide your head in shame! Your no a democrat but a blatantly obvious hypocrit. Message was edited by: brolly3

perhaps brolly speaks for millions, or perhaps the polls do, or perhaps they are not mutually exclusive :) "It's bad enough that we saw our[Labour's] majority slashed by almost 100 seats, lost scores of dedicated MPs and saw our share of the popular vote plummet to a pitiful 35%." "May 5 will go down in history as the day when the myth of the great Blairite coalition was finally exposed. Tony was able to secure the support of 2 million fewer voters than Neil Kinnock did in 1992, the election that supposedly represents the crucible upon which New Labour was formed." Glenda Jackson MP http://politics.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,9115,1482033,00.html

brolly3, Tsk, Tsk Tsk, I'm truly hurt. You have determined from voting figures that the outcome was unsatisfactory-- to the winners or the losers? The outcome was not a democratic representation of the majority-- doesn't the parliamentary system allow for minority parties to be represented? Election change? Most people vote party affiliatiion. That how "safe seats" are determined. They vote to keep things the same. That is what you're up against. We have our own system of elections which narrows the field and produces a working majority at the end. It works for us.