This has led to complacency, as we saw with the expenses scandal last year.
We will finally be given our say in the referendum on 5th May 2011. The proposed Alternative Vote ("AV") method of electing MPs builds on the strengths of the current system while eliminating many of its weaknesses.
Politicians will be forced to work harder to earn and keep our support. People will at last be able to vote for what they really want.
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CAER exists to change our voting systems across the UK and Europe to elect our MPs, MEPs, local councillors and devolved legislatures.  We back the proposed referendum to support the change to elect our MPs to the Alternative Voting system. CAER also back STV for Lords Reform, as recommed by a 2005 cross-party Bill on Lords Reform, including signatories such as William Hague, Ken Clark and George Young.
The UK devolved legislatures have a number of voting systems which confuse the voter.  There are three different voting systems in Scotland, two in the London Assembly & Mayoral contest, and two in the Welsh Assembly and local government and the D'Hondt system in electing our MEPs.
Imagine
An election that does not have ‘safe’ or ‘marginal’ seats, where former ‘safe’ seat MPs have to work to get elected, where money wasn’t poured into target seats, where MPs are directly accountable to the electorate rather than the party hierarchy, an end to tactical voting and an outcome that broadly represents the balance of opinion in the country?
A resurgent Conservative Party in the north of England and increased representation in Scotland and Wales. A system that rewards MPs for hard work, relaxes some of the constraints on MPs from the whips and the national party line, so that they can develop their own profiles as local champions and their own lines of thought on policy issues.A system that gives the voter a direct link and feels engaged where some usually have a feeling of being neglected and voiceless, of being taken for granted by the system and not having a real choice, that breeds apathy and votes for extremism. The BNP comes along and some voters feel that it is the first party that could be bothered to engage with them. In areas where mainstream political competition is healthy, there is no vacuum for the BNP. 
Fantasy?
No, it could become a reality and it is not just the Cameron factor and one more push that will help us but electoral reform that will deliver the above.And it is already happening in Britain.
Democracy for Britain.
We already have electoral reform in Northern Ireland, in the EU through the election of MEPs, the London Mayoralty and now Lords Reform.We already have it so let’s exploit it to our advantage. However, the English have been denied a say on their voting system.
Reform is bad for Labour.
Reform is about giving voters a choice of candidates and fair representation for their views and fair to parties and candidates. The idea of ‘safe seats’ and ‘marginal seats’ is central to campaigning in the First Past the Post (FPTP) elections. Under reform this would change.  The bias in the electoral system currently favours Labour but boundary determination is only a small factor in generating bias, and the more powerful reasons – differential turnout and the distribution of the vote – that are mostly responsible.