Congratulations to the Guardian for launching an urgent debate on a New Politics over at Comment is Free. The Telegraph did all the initial running on MPs expenses but the paper now appears to have misjudged the public mood and the appetite for far-reaching reform believing that the solution to the democratic crisis is a general election which elects David Cameron. An election may be necessary but there'll be no fundamental change without a radical overhaul of the democratic system. The New Politics series can help provide the intellectual arguments to inform this debate.
Guy Aitchison
Guy Aitchison is a Lecturer in Politics and International Studies at Loughborough University. He is a political theorist with interests in human rights, political resistance and migration. You can follow him @GuyAitchison.
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