The Purifying Pot of the Jacobins (1793), alluding to the Law of Suspects enacted under Robespierre's Committee of Public Safety
Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?
(Bertolt Brecht)
Are the people good enough?
Responses to the Brexit vote have revealed a disturbing current of anti-democratic sentiment. We need to challenge these attitudes and commit to a deeper form of democracy.
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