Wanting to be Heard But Not Wanting to Act? Addressing Political Disengagement

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IN the 1970 film, The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer, Peter Cook played the part of a ruthless schemer who works his way from a market-research company to the top of British politics. Having become Prime Minister, Rimmer determines to hold onto power at all costs by adopting what seems the most implausible of strategies, the advocacy of direct democracy. He declares that the public should have the right to vote on all issues and orders ballots to be despatched to every home in the country on a daily basis. But the public, besieged with forms and wearied by the constant pressure to take decisions, eventually pleads with the Prime Minister to do the job he is paid for . . ....

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