The Two Most Propitious Moments for Structural Reform in British Politics

In an extraordinarily fast-changing world, our democratic systems look to me as though they contain too many relics of the past. In 1997 Tony Blair was potentially quite serious about structural and indeed electoral reform but he won by too much. Or 2010, the other propitious moment, I think for structural reform to British politics, where the result was too close. So yes, we got an AV referendum, but I'm one of those people who believe that George Osborne had set that whole thing up because he knew how it was going to play out. And then there's a bigger problem with the terms of the question - is democracy something that can be fixed? Because under the conditions where it needs fixing