Even the Institute for Fiscal Studies now admits that economic inequality is incompatible with democracy.
Money talks, and if some people have far more money than others, then their voices are far louder, so that, in effect, their votes count for more.
If they can be bothered to vote at all, since they know that they are going to win, anyway. Meanwhile, the people who are effectively silenced might very well also stop voting.
This statement of the obvious is like nails down a blackboard to the Thatcherite-Blairite rump that makes up most of the House of Commons.
Another hung Parliament is coming, however, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it.
It has become a local commonplace that I am on 30-30-30 with Labour and the Conservatives here at North West Durham, so that any one of us could be the First Past the Post.
I will stand for this seat, if I can raise the £10,000 necessary to mount a serious campaign. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
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