The problem with this is that there are still many people in the labour party who cannot forgive the libdem's for abandoning the party and the country to Thatcher during the 80's

The time to push through these changes to the voting system were during the first election, but unfortunately Labour won it too well, and had no incentive to do anything about the voting system.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.