Proportional representation? No thanks

As a liberal, in the UK, I support the Liberal Democratic Party. I was a radical/liberal also in Italy but my party decided to infect with the liberal virus other parties and didn’t take part to any election for now 20 years. As radical, living in a country where governability was virtually impossible, I have always supported a FPTF system, like the one we got in the UK. The Radical Party, in Italy, has always supported a strong government as part of the liberal values and the good of the nation. FPTP was one of the preferred systems by the Italian Radicals  held hostages for decades of parties with 1 or 2% of the consensus. However this has never been possible in Italy because of all cross vetoes and interest small partied have in holding the balance of power. Democracy, fairness, justice are not necessarily guaranteed by an election law that guarantees all force to be present in a Parliament. As liberal, I fight for having liberties granted but also for keeping illiberal forces out of a Parliament and, possibly, a government. In the UK, since we lost the election, badly and by own our fault, we have been complaining and asking for a fair electoral system. There are graphs published every other day to show how many seats we should have gotten based on the overall number of votes and how many we got. To show how democratic we are, we also speak on behalf of the UKIP telling that they should have gotten more seats. Even if this would have meant a Tory/UKIP coalition that would have seen us already out of the EU, against the principles we believe, or perhaps just preach. The absurdity of this liberal view is even worse when we perform calculations based on the overall UK number of votes, as if in a Proportional system there would be one constituency for the whole country. How illiberal would that be implying that we would lose one of the most beautiful things the FPTP system guarantees: the closeness of the elected member to the electors in their constituencies.

In Germany out of 43.6 million valid votes, only 39.3 millions are represented in the Parliament due to the barrage introduced to guarantee governability. In the UK, 30.3 million out of 30.6 valid votes! It's not the accurate repartition but more people than other countries has a voice to be heard.

You calculate the percentages.

How about Italy, where there is an absurd electoral system that is a compromise to guarantee governability (failing anyway) and rights of minor parties? 32.2K out of 34K votes.

A few more details.

In the UK with 36.8% of the valid votes, Tories rule with 50.8% of the seats. In Germany the CDU and CSU with a total of 45.1% of the votes rule with the 50.9% of the MPs. Don’t forget the nearly 4 million votes left out of the Parliament, nearly the same votes the UKIP got UK wide, being wiped off. In Italy is even more complex because the current government was never voted in and, in an attempt to save the country from become next victim of the speculation after Greece, there is a sort of national salvation government in power because the system to allow representation didn’t allow any government to be formed. People voted for a coalition that broke to create a government of the president ignoring completely the country's vote. Thanks to the Proportional representation component that would not allow any coalition government.
 
So, dear friends of the Liberal Democratic party, think twice. This FPTP system is not the best possible one but it guarantees the country to be stable and against extremist drifting. In terms or overall representation is better than others.