As we are always reminded, our sovereign isle is a democracy
If only that were true, 'Shan'!
Unfortunately, the monarchical democracy in which we exist, so often trumpeted by the kind of propaganda rags you mentioned, is a sham; a figment of the imagination just like Santa Claus or the tooth fairy.
The de facto situation is that democracy has been so corrupted in the UK by the rich and powerful that what we are told is democracy is, in reality, oligarchy or plutocracy, more accurately a combination of both.
The referendum of 2016 could hardly be described as a democratic process based on one man - one vote, as so many exclusions meant the electorate became a selected audience. Moreover, the adjustments to constituency boundaries over the years have created a lopsided demographic of public opinion, favouring the tory party. Any democratic system that permits a situation where the tail wags the dog such as we have witnessed with the political wing of the Orange Order and assorted, loyalist terror groups in NI receiving special, extraordinary financial inducements to keep the tories in power, is no democracy at all.
When the rich and powerful utilise corruption and their influence through their propaganda channels to ensure their hold on power continues, the kind of government we see today becomes almost inevitable and is no different from the American gangster days when the mafia ruled over all the big cities, paying off officials and offering protection at a price to ensure they got exactly what they wanted.
It has been going on since WW2 in the UK and you may remember Joe Gormley for one and Neil Kinnock as another who were bought and paid for by the rich and powerful, becoming traitors to the very people they purported to represent. In the same way, 'New Labour' was born and that became every bit as damaging as tory rule, indeed one indistinguishable from the other.
Tom
