Forget redrawing constituency boundaries, just implement proportional representation, writes Alan Fowler. Plus letters from Phil Tate and David Nowell âThe fact remains that, due to the distortions of our first past the post voting system, these changes will do nothing whatsoever to correct the absurdity of the existing democratic deficit.â Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty âThe fact remains that, due to the distortions of our first past the post voting system, these changes will do nothing whatsoever to correct the absurdity of the existing democratic deficit.â Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Letters Wed 9 Jun 2021 12.35 EDT Last modified on Wed 9 Jun 2021 12.37 EDT Electoral demographics are changing dramatically and yet the Boundary Commission is busily shuffling deckchairs while the ship of democracy lies becalmed (UK electoral officials announce biggest shake-up of boundaries in decades, 8 June).