One of the potential benefits of the Coronavirus crisis is an opportunity to look at reform, what isn’t working, what to change, how to change?
If there’s one thing the coronavirus fiascos show, it’s the need for radical change. Britain's claims to being a functioning democracy are only skin deep.
As the government blunders from one disaster to the next, there seem to be no effective ways of holding it to account.
The great majority of money for the Conservative party comes from a small number of very rich people. Just five hedge fund managers have given it £18m over the past 10 years. The secretive Leader’s Group grants big donors special access to the prime minister and his frontbenchers in return for their money. Courting and cultivating rich people to win elections corrupts our politics, replacing democracy with plutocracy.
Our political system has the outward appearance of democracy, but it is largely controlled by undemocratic forces. We find ourselves on the wrong side of the portcullis, watching helplessly as crucial decisions are taken about us, without us.
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