Well the current voting system clearly isn't working for Gordon Brown

Gordon Brown seems to be a fan of "lateral thinking"; the Labour Party fails spectacularly at two elections this month so Gordon Brown decides that electoral reform is the answer. The BBC report that:

"Gordon Brown will announce plans to examine a new Westminster voting system, the BBC understands.

Mr Brown will make a statement to MPs on Wednesday about his reform plans in the wake of the expenses scandal.

Ministers have discussed an alternative vote system to choose MPs to replace the first past the post method, BBC political editor Nick Robinson said. "

I am not sure how a new electoral system will solve the expenses problem but then this is not about solving anything, it's about trying to save Gordon Brown and the Labour party from electoral meltdown this year or next.

Gordon Brown's Labour government looks like it will try and change the elctoral system and elect John Bercow to the post of Speaker in order to queer David Cameron's pitch as much as possible; can they be stopped.