MAIL ONLINE: One of the strongest advantages of the British electoral system has always been that it gives voters the opportunity for a clear choice.
'First past the post' means the chance to throw the governing party out on its ear. It is a brutally clean break and totally transparent.
By contrast, coalitions mean backstairs deals which are not transparent at all. They mean weak governments held to ransom by tiny political parties. And they mean voters can never make that clean break.
Which is why the manoeuvres to form a coalition between the Tories and the Lib Dems are so dismaying - particularly since the Lib Dems' non-negotiable condition is to demand proportional representation, thereby cementing coalition government for ever. >>> Melanie Phillips | Monday, May 10, 2010
