I know. They can even order media blackouts of stories. What it is, according to Jeremy Bentham, is a child’s uniform that has grown along with the child. Full grown, his knee pants and sailor top still fit, but he needs an entirely new outfit. So, too, there’s a bit of Magna Carta here, War of the Roses there, Common Law everywhere and two parliaments, one for the commoners and one for the nobility, a few colonies still under their dominion or commonwealth, or whatever, and with a monarchy for a cherry on top. In spite of all that jumble, it functions very well on many fronts. But “democracy” is just one facet of a complex diamond, one of which this vlogger is very fond, and which is very important. But it’s still just one facet.
My bad. That was from JS Mills’ essay on Jeremy Bentham.
Building on what you said here the most dysfunctional part of UK governance is the part called ‘democracy’.