The Brown Choice

So now Gordon Brown has decided that the people should decide what voting system we use for Westminster elections in future (although not for 2010). Two thoughts crossed my mind.

Firstly, is seems to me that it is not the voting system that people are fed up with but with politicians who have been caught with their hands in the till. This rotten parliament needs to be replaced right now but, unsurprisingly, Gordon still wants to choose the timing of a General Election.

Secondly, once again we only get to choose from the options that politicians decide are the right ones as if we are all too stupid to make a coherent decision if we are given a truly free choice. There is nothing new, progressive or revolutionary about this type of choice. Gordon Brown espouses choice now because it suits him to do so. He opposed it in the past because it suited him to do so. Where is the voice of the people in this kind of choice?

When will the political classes begin to treat the electorate like adults rather than children who must be told what is good for them? Not this side of an election it seems.