Britain's Conservatives and Liberal-Democrats to form government.

Britain’s New Labour era ends with Cameron taking power - The Globe and Mail
You can bet that the Conservatives will make sure the referendum they promised will fail (badly worded, little or confusing information to the public beforehand, etc).

Election results in Britain may push them to electoral reform

Ludicrous election results in U.K. match those in Canada | Fair Vote Canada

Yesterday’s British parliamentary election provided yet another
breath-taking example of how an antiquated winner-take-all voting system
distorts election results.

With 626 of the 650 seats declared (8am, May 7), the Conservatives
won about 47% of the seats with just 36% of the votes. Labour received
an equivalent windfall of undeserved seats: 40% of the seats with just
29% of the votes.

Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats won only 8% of the seats, despite
winning about 23% of the votes. As Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg
said, it is “abundantly clear the electoral system is broken.”

“As ludicrous as Britain’s election results are, they are no worse than
what we experience in Canada,” said Bronwen Bruch, President of Fair
Vote Canada, a multi-partisan citizens’ campaign for voting system
reform in Canada. "The big difference is that Britain may well move
forward on electoral reform, since both Labour and the Liberal
Democrats, who together represent a majority of voters, are prepared to
scrap the discredited first-past-the-post system. The Liberal Democrats
are expected to demand action on proportional representation.”

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Who does this lazy Parliament represent anyway

Bill Longstaff: Who does this lazy Parliament represent anyway?
Excellent post by Bill Longstaff regarding what the make-up of parliament actually represents and what it does not.
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A telling passage from one letter particularly caught my eye:

Judging from the current “representation” most Quebecois want to quit the federation; most Canadians are reluctant to elect women; there are no Conservative supporters in Vancouver, Montreal or Toronto; there are no Liberal supporters in Alberta. There are no New Democrat supporters in Saskatchewan and remarkably few elsewhere, and no Green supporters anywhere in Canada.

Although it appears farcical, this is indeed what the current makeup of Parliament suggests, and it's a sad and disturbing message. The fact that Conservatives are not represented in our three major cities and Liberals are not represented in Alberta, even though many people in those areas support those parties, contributes to dangerous divisions in an already regionally divided nation. That millions of Canadians are unable to help elect someone who represents them is a democratic tragedy.
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Fair Vote Canada's letters to the PM and to the Opposition leaders

Challenging the Commonplace: Strongly-Worded Letters to PM, Opposition Leaders
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(excerpt)

At present the House of Commons embodies and projects a series of ridiculous untruths. Judging from the current “representation” most Quebecois want to quit the federation; most Canadians are reluctant to elect women; there are no Conservative supporters in Vancouver, Montreal or Toronto; there are no Liberal supporters in Alberta. There are no New Democrat supporters in Saskatchewan and remarkably few elsewhere, and no Green supporters anywhere in Canada...

Each of you should now be asking: does my party really want democratic representation for all Canadians, and what will my party risk or sacrifice, now, to achieve it?
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The Right will cause PR

Both Barrels: The Right will cause PR <read full post.

Mark Taylor puts forth an argument showing how a breakup of the Conservative party into at least 2 new (old?) Conservative parties could help bring about Proportional Representation.
I think he could be onto something here.

Wow, the Toronto Sun supports Proportional Representation now.

The Skinny: Toronto Sun: Voting rules fail us (Bryn Weese)