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Also don't forget both the Tories and Labour variously doing major projects only for the next government to take the credit, while simultaneously criticising the previous govenment for both not investing and spending more than them, as the next government only finished the project and aren't starting anything new.
"Luckily" the Tories know they have no chance of winning, so they're cancelling all the major projects and salting the earth so that Labour don't get to take the credit in a few years.
(representative democracy is a scam give me an absolute monarch or direct democracy only please & thank you)
(or frankly the realistic option of elected people who set the agenda and weekly referendums where people vote on the things they care about and abstain/don't show up for other things)
I like the idea of weekly referendums, but I need some convincing because of how Brexit went.
I think that because referendums are so rare and it was such a major issue that people came out in droves to vote even if they didn't have a strong opinion, and that'd probably still happen for "big things" but one would hope for normal things that you'd only get serial voters, who are likely to be informed given they're voting all the time, and people who are interested in the subject matter