Are the elections on May 6 something of a charade?

22 April, 2021
• THE other day I received a booklet with the inviting title
“6 May 2021: Have your say” from Mary Harpley, Greater London Returning Officer.
It reminded me of the dubiety of our current democracy. A good democracy minimally requires a well-informed electorate.
Certain politicians conspire against that requirement, preferring to misinform: witness prime minister Boris Johnson’s “We have placed a protective ring around care homes”; “There will be no border down the Irish Sea”; “As London’s mayor, I left Transport for London’s finances in robust good order”.
The booklet offers another way in which democracy is ill-served.
How many people, many working long hours and or with children to look after, have time and motivation to read the booklet’s 36 pages?

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