How long will it be before the word ‘voting’ is no longer associated with ‘governing’?
How long will it be, do you reckon, before the connotations of the word ‘voting’ are all about reality television, and hardly about government at all? Not long, I’d say. With President Blair, with goats and General Dannatt, I worry that voting and government are drifting apart.
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