If you watch the 24/7 news on TV or read the usual newspapers you’ll have no trouble recognising the environment they take for granted they are operating in and we are supposedly living in. It goes like so:
- The United Kingdom is a democracy,
- That has a parliament led by Prime Minister Gordon Brown and an “opposition” led by “Dave” Cameron,
- And the office of the Prime Minister is the highest in the land,
- And the laws made in parliament are a representation of the will of the public as expressed at the ballot box.
Which makes me wonder why the old sayings, “None of them are any good!”, or, “This lot are as bad as the last lot!”, are as popular today as they have ever been.
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