Interest

You needn't presume to hold or express a view about interest rates. Thanks to Gordon Brown and cheered on by pretty much everyone, the electorate, as such, actually cannot even care about interest rates, even though the public certainly does. And Brown and David Cameron both now seem determined to do the same thing to health policy, once again reversing one of Labour greatest democratising achievements.

With no say over either monetary policy or health policy, what will politicians be for? There will still be education, and transport, and policing, and social security, and foreign policy, and defence, and a host of other matters. But for how much longer? The precedent will be well and truly set. Parliament will go the way of local councils, except voluntarily.