which was rather what i was driving at. much of the perceptions of the "fairness" or otherwise of our elections is because we see national polling/votes and compare them to seats elected. it looks wrong, but that's because we didn't vote in one election for a national party or a leader, we...
your article doesnt address the point. so what if highlighting Labour-SNP links was a campaign tactic. it wasn't showing in the polls, people were not reporting that this was a major concern. it make no sense to suggest that polling overlooked this issue that had been running for weeks, so...
don't talk about PR as the most important issue, unless you mean part of a complete root and branch overhaul of the electoral system. PR is just a counting method, if you don't change what you are counting then its going to end up just as flawed.