Sprucing up democracy

摘要

David cameron is in many ways a rather traditional Tory. Unlike some of his more ideological colleagues, he prefers to take the world as it is rather than rage that it is not as he would like it. He quickly concluded after May 6th that allying himself with the cause of modest electoral reform was a price worth paying for power. For the Liberal Democrats, changing the first-past-the-post voting system that discriminates against them has long been the holy grail. The Conservative promise of a referendum on the alternative-vote (av) system trumped a superior, but ultimately undeliverable, offer by Labour of more radical reform. A coalition was born.