Why the local election results this year were unprecedented and show the need to fix our broken electoral system

Why the local election results this year were unprecedented and show the need to fix our broken electoral system

Will someone wake up? I’m going to start with a big statement: the local election results this year were different to anything anyone has ever seen before, certainly in this century. Political parties, especially governing parties, have had bad elections before. Labour in 2009 lost 62% of its seats in a single election, the worst result of the Blair/Brown years. The Liberal Democrats in 2014 lost 42% of their seats, their worst result of the coa…