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  Don't politicians compromise enough promises already?
  
  PR means that no manifesto of any party will ever be carried through and all parties can promise everything and never have to deliver because in the compromise of coalition, they can always blame the coalition parties for forcing key policies into the oblivion of compromise.
  
  PR means an almost total lack of accountability to the people.
  
  PR gives us the 'grey men' of Europe, all those stodgy dull party apparatchiks who inhabit the corridors of power in national parliaments around the continent and eventually make their way to the European Commission.
  
  PR removes even the pretence (by some) that they represent a local constituency or area because all candidates will only ever represent their party.
  
  People complain that Parliament and party leaderships are currently over full with people who have only ever done politics - PR would guarantee that there would be virtually no other type of person in Parliament.
  
  There is more, but I'll stop there for now.
  
  We currently have in the UK a representative, first past the post, parliamentary democracy, yet large swathes of the country cast their votes as if we had PR (which is mad) - they vote for a party without regard to the qualities and competency of their local candidates to represent their interests and the best interests of their area in Parliament. Some local candidates and all of the main party leaderships encourage this situation (particularly the larger parties) because it suits their purposes and enables them to fill Parliament with their drones. If people voted instead for the way that our system should work, then we would have a far more talented and diverse Parliament than we currently have.

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