Last to scrap first past

 

It would seem the most sublime, if not the strongest, argument for maintaining so-called "first past the post" is the power of tradition, and that the blood shed by de Montfort and his forces at Evesham and Lewes must not be insulted by pulling the connective tissue between voters (now far removed, and in the millions) and representatives up. But would reform, in effect accomplished, to the elections of the Commons in effect be a more sordid affair than of French, Prussian or New Zealand political institutions and would it diminish democracy, as so many - unspokenly - seem to think?