If politicians favour the views of (actual) voters when making policy, while minorities who're ignored feel so disenfranchised they won't bother voting, reinforcing a focus on those who do, can democracy survive, even in the compromised form we currently having in the UK?
The IPPR think that we may be reaching the point where the legitimacy of the political system is bought (perhaps violently?) into question.
Not impossible to fix, but not easy either.
#democracy
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/01/turnout-inequality-uk-elections-close-to-tipping-point-ippr
Emeritus Prof Christopher May /
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