Democratic involvement and representation

I'VE LONG been of the view that there are wise, decent, sensible individuals in all the major parties. The body politic suffers from an electoral system that does not allow this truth to manifest itself for the benefit of the Borough or country as a whole. As a case in point, the Conservatives have a significant vote in our Borough, but until recently had not a single representative on the Council.

The recent exception was an accident and the individual involved is likely to lose his seat come the next election (notwithstanding the likely swing nationally to the Conservatives) because in the previous election he was voted in as a representative of a different party.

Locally at least, the Conservative party is severely disadvantaged by the first-past-the-post system and yet that party does not support a system of proportional representation.

Such a system is a more accurate reflection of the will of the people and avoids the wild swings of the pendulum that the long-term future of the country suffers from. The pendulum swings too far one way and then there is the over-correction.

All players are obliged to work with the FPTP system. The exaggerated effect of the pendulum also tends to reflect the general feeling that either one or other class is in power. Is this mature politics?