Of course the problem is that multiple member seats are forced on us by the European powers that be. They would not let Cameron go back to single member seats, and I presume he knows it.

Incidentally, I have posted about the outrageous discrepancies in UK Euroconstituencies, but there is the further issue that Europe is allowed to get away with a Parliament which greatly over-represents smaller countries. The European Parliament really ought to bicameral on the US system (and that of the German Parliament), with a lower house in which every MEP represents as nearly as possible an equal number of electors and an upper house in which each country has the same number of representatives – but of course the UK should be treated as at least four countries, and possibly more for places like Cornwall and even Kent and Yorkshire, in the Upper House.

I assume, if he still desires this, that any change will have to happen after the 10% reduction. I have never been much of a fan of the Euro regions model, so any return to how things used to be (with AV or STV instead of FPTP) would be fine by me.

The unequal size of Euroconstituencies is glaringly obviously unfair in that in this consitutency the minor parties have no chance, whereas in, for instance, the South East (and the North-East and Yorkshire and Humbershide combined would be no bigger than the South East) party getting under 10% of the vote gets representation. I am not considering whether it is right for minor parties to get MEPs; but the bar in terms of percentage of the vote should be roughly comparable across the country.