One of the bitterest disappointments of the Blair era for me was that he didn't reform the voting system.

I hated the way different governments indulged in all sorts of wasteful tokenism, when I was a teacher. Labour was pretty weird - an education secretary (Shirley Williams) who didn't see any point in consulting with teachers representative bodies. But Keith Joseph for the tories deserves some sort of memorial erected to the guy with the most mad arsed irresponsible ideas in history.

Either way we were a political football. No one with any teaching knowledge of difficult schools was consulted. It was looked on as a moral failure by the tories to try and teach in poor city areas. We had to import better teaching bloodstock from 'better' schools where they had no problems to speak of.

These extreme positions and policies were always pursued by some plonker who had managed to convince the nutter part of the population to give them 38% of the vote.

We need protection from extremists, and the insolence of politicians. Lets hope AV gives us more balanced and serious minded leaders.