Dis-Proportional Representation is not Democracy

Picasso famously said, “Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”

His paintings were deliberately distorted, asymmetric and disproportional. 

In the early 1900s, photography had mastered the art of “representative” imagery, so the role of artists was no longer to capture reality, but to give a more personal subjective view.

Democratic elections should be designed to produce a result more like a photograph than an abstract work of art. The aim should be to capture a true representation of the will of the people rather than a distortion of reality.

The government’s Representation Of The People Bill does not address the distorted view of reality that First Past The Post voting gives us. Recent polls show a significant majority of the British public favour electoral reform with proportional representation, so the government’s bill amounts to a denial of “the will of the people”.

If it’s not proportional, it’s not representative.
If it’s not representative, it’s not democracy.