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.

"Labour and PR in the same sentence! Haha! So, what happened when you woke up?"

Seriously, though, I agree with what you say. Although I haven't studies FPTP closely, it seems New "Labour" only started winning when they became Tory Light. (Again, nothing that's news to anyone. Just padding my post a bit.)