The Conservatives' "experiment" with a primary election in Totnes attracted a lot of media coverage. But the media don't seem to realise it was a very clever smokescreen.

Here's what I wrote in response to one major article. My piece was published on the Opinion page in The Scotsman on 26 August 2009.

(Lord) George Foulkes MSP (Labour) had a Platform Opinion piece in The Scotsman recently in which he claimed it was only by FPTP in single-member constituencies that we could hold our MPs to account.

Here's what I wrote in reply:
http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Electoral-accountability-can39t-be-e...

The discussion continues on the letters page of The Scotsman:
GF: http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Vote-for-stability.5408890.jp

JG: http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Stability-in-action.5412025.jp

Newspaper commentators, bloggers around the world, and anti-PR campaigners of every hue have rushed into print with shock-horror stories claiming the success of the BNP in the recent elections to the European Parliament was all down to the PR voting system. "All would have been well if only we had used First-Past-The-Post".