Ron Davies (the Welsh politician) resigned after apparently late night visits to urban green areas much frequented by homosexuals, beceause he wanted a late night walk in the fresh air and to watch the badgers. After that it all went downhill (or down somewhere).

The UK has some official quotas, but the main parties try to rig the local candidate panels with a view to getting a better balance (by race and gender) of politicians into parliament.

I'm saying the US does not seem to be doing so well at that, so it needs a mandatory system to ensure fair representation in that respect.

THe US needs a bunch of other reforms too - so does the UK but the reforms we need are different, at least in some respects.