So the great ignored then. Are you one of them? Am I? How can we tell? Do we get a membership card? Discount points at Morrison’s?

Or is this in fact another worthless phrase – like “silent majority” that helps conservative politicians to spread the myth that most people in the country are conservative in bent (clue – two of the three major parties are more progressive than you, and combined get at least  around 50% of polling numbers)  and that there fore you can implement harsh right wing policies at their behest. Of course you can’t prove that’s what’s wanted – they are silent/ignored after all. But your well paid columnists in the majority of say it over and over again (Littlejohn, Clarkson, Liddle, Johnsons Mel and Boris – I’m looking at you) and so it become received wisdom without ever actually being wise.

So of course to oppose the changes that everyone wants puts you against the great ignored. You are an elite. You are an elite because you think work should pay more and accident of birth should pay less. Because you think that education should be open to the masses, because you believe we achieve more together than we do alone. Get back in your box you elitist.

Politicians of all hues have every right to try and sell themselves and their policies to us, but to claim a mandate for a party before an election is a dangerous and cynical game. And to disenfranchise people in the name of a majority you have invented even more so.

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