Single member district NOT the norm

[Daniel Davis]

DEMOREP1 at aol.com wrote:

> Below are Annexes F, G and H of the U.K. Jenkins Commission Report regarding
> changing the election system for the U.K. House of Commons.  It gives an idea
> of the effort required to make ANY change in an old anti-democratic election
> method (in the U.K. case, the use of gerrymandered single member districts in
> use for about 700 years).

    Sorry, "gerrymandered single member districts" are not 700 years old.

    Read:


"First the single member constituency is not an inherent part of the British
parliamentary tradition. It was unusual until 1885, and only became the rule in
1950."  (Source: Lord Jenkins' Report on Electoral Reform, October 1998)

    * * * * *

    Thus, it is not what many would have you believe.  Single member districts
are the exception in britannia's storied First past the post-cereal days.

    Long live the rotten boroughs.  Go tories.

    d.d.

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