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Fleet didn't say they'd "sweep to power" what he/she said was that an extremist party could hold the balance of power. And that has happened: it's happened in Israel where some extreme right religious parties have held the balance of power, it's happened in Austria when Jörg Haider's far-right...

But I wasn't proposing a way to do away with party lists, my suggestion was to solve a different problem, how to have representative MPs within a PR system. TBH, I don't see much wrong with party lists, provided they're elected properly by the parties and not stitch-ups

But as I pointed out earlier, we could have PR and a direct relation between MPs and their constituencies if we adopted the German method. Not that I want to sound like Herr T ...

You could also have a system that the Germans have: a mixture of PR and FPTP. In this version, there's a MP elected per constituency and a wider range of MPs elected by PR. So, let's say there are four constituencies in East Sussex and they would return three Tories and one Labour (at a guess)...