Flawed and floundering. Now wants to change the voting system to fix the next election (typical LibDem me, but ugh, we finally get a change for Westminster but it's the one we don't want........
This made me curious...
[quote author=beeb, the]Prime Minister Gordon Brown has set out wide-ranging proposals to "clean up" and modernise British politics in an effort to reassert his authority.
He promised a consultation on changing the voting system - but he said there were "no plans" for a referendum on this issue before the next election.
He also pledged tougher sanctions for MPs guilty of misconduct, including the power for constituents to recall MPs.
Tory leader David Cameron said the "real change" needed was an election.
And he accused Mr Brown of trying to "fix" the electoral system in his party's favour by scrapping the current first-past-the-post system, which allowed voters to get rid of "weak, divided and incompetent governments and that is what we should be doing now".
He said proportional representation was a "recipe for weak coalition governments" and Mr Brown had only started talking about it "because he fears he is going to lose".
Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg - whose party has long argued for electoral reform - welcomed Mr Brown's "deathbed conversion" to the cause "from the man who has blocked change at every opportunity for the last 12 years". (...)
On electoral reform, Mr Brown said he did not favour proportional representation for Westminster elections as he did not want to break the link between MPs and constituencies.
But he said a debate on whether the vote system should change.
Ministers are thought to have discussed an "alternative vote" system to replace the current first-past-the-post method.
Campaign group Unlock Democracy said they welcomed Mr Brown's "rhetoric" on constitutional reform but it was no substitute for action.
Unlock Democracy director Alexandra Runswick said: "This afternoon, Gordon Brown was reduced to performing the role of a bingo caller, listing a whole series of potential reforms yet offering almost nothing of substance."
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