Britain will only solve Brexit if it fixes its weird political system
MPs don’t represent the people, the queen has skewed powers and a general election will be meaningless
05 September 2019 - 09:27
Democracy, Winston Churchill once famously said, was the worst way to run a country “apart from all the others that have ever been tried”. Unfortunately, he did not make clear what kind of democracy he favoured.
Britain’s dreadful Brexit impasse has divided the country into roughly equal camps, both convinced democracy has been traduced. And they both have a point. What started as an argument over the EU’s democratic deficit, and the way in which it encroached on Britain’s unwritten constitution, has degenerated into something more fundamental: an argument about the nature of democracy itself in the UK...
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