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Is Britain really a democracy?
If we truly have our preferences realised best by voting, why is Parliament at odds with the public on nationalisation, rent caps, climate change and everything else which may eat into corporate profit margins, asks IAN SINCLAIR

APPEARING on BBC Radio 4’s the Moral Maze in January, Jeremy Black, professor emeritus of history at Exeter University, strongly opposed the toppling of the statue of slave trader Edward Colston in June 2020.

“Since 1928 we have had a full, equal parliamentary democracy … We do have democratic processes in Britain, both in local government and in national government, to change the law or to give effect to the law,” he argued.

“I’m not happy with the way of using force and violence in order to effect change when there are democratic processes there.”

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