SIR - Louis Stephen's letter ' Time for a change in (the) electoral system' May 22 is essentially a piece of waffle.

Most would agree our first past the post voting system is utterly corrupt, as voting figures show. Indeed how on earth can it be democratic for the SNP to receive 4.7% of the votes cast and gain 56 seats in the House of Commons, when UKIP with 12% of the votes cast got just one seat, or for the Greens to get 1,157,613 votes and just one seat. That's an absolute disgrace! But nothing will change. Elections are not about the proper democratic representation of we the people. They are about power. And who exercises it. The Trade Unions behind Labour won't give up the chance of absolute governmental power, nor will the rich behind the Tories.

This country imposed proportional representation on Germany post the First World War, and we imposed it on the Scottish Parliament, and we have proportional elections for Europe. Sadly when it comes to the Westminster establishment it boils down to which one of two parties is going to be able to impose its single part state upon the nation. To change that we require a revolution but we the people are our own worst enemies. We won't stand together in the way that the Scots do so Westminster's elite will continue to rule us, via their utterly rotten first-past-the-post election system. Isn't that why MPs are held in such contempt by the electorate, and why we say of politicians 'They are in it for themselves?'

I've demanded proportional representation through the pages of the Worcester news for almost 30 years. Not once have I received a response. And you can bet your last dollar our MPs have no interest in PR! Nor will we fight our MPs to force proportional representation upon them - we've no longer the backbone!

N TAYLOR Worcester