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The message is clear: it's time to put first-past-the-post out to pasture

  • Written by: The Conversation

There is no avoiding it – the UK’s electoral process is well past its sell-by date. In 2010 the first-past-the-post system failed to deliver a single-party majority government and it is very unlikely to deliver a stable coalition government in 2015.

The problems of the first-past-the-post system go beyond the fact that Labour and the...

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