Excellent Article but one minor point: it wasn't the Tories who chose the d'Hondt PR system. It was Labour who were in power at Westminster and whose Cabinet contained a number of very competent Scots. Their interest in supporting devolution was centred around diminishing the burgeoning support for the SNP and, as you state, the choice of the d'Hondt method was to prevent the SNP ever having a majority in the new assembly.
I agree wholeheartedly. It is ridiculous that media didn't respond to the initial comment about disenfranchisement with "its FPTP that would cause this". Where is their political awareness?
Excellent Article but one minor point: it wasn't the Tories who chose the d'Hondt PR system. It was Labour who were in power at Westminster and whose Cabinet contained a number of very competent Scots. Their interest in supporting devolution was centred around diminishing the burgeoning support for the SNP and, as you state, the choice of the d'Hondt method was to prevent the SNP ever having a majority in the new assembly.
Thank you, Ken. I've corrected it.
I agree wholeheartedly. It is ridiculous that media didn't respond to the initial comment about disenfranchisement with "its FPTP that would cause this". Where is their political awareness?