stats

• 52% of population voted Leave, 74% of MP's were remainers
• Bakunin : representative democracy falsely legitamises the rule of the 'intellectual governing minority, who, while claiming to represent the people, unfailingly exploits them'
• Goldman: 'if voting changed anything they'd make it illegal'
• 2021: Paterson resigns as MP after lobbying for Randox for £8,333 for 16 hrs of work a month
• 2019 Brexit Party won 2% of popular vote and no seats
• 2019 Lib Dems won 11.6% of vote but only won 11 seats
• 2019 most diverse House of Commons
• Private schoolers over-represented in Parliament as 29% vs 7% of population
• social background of parliament more middle class than in 1945
• 2018 Hansard Society estimated 83% of AB social group prepared ro participate in politics vs 41% of DE group
• Only 2% of homeless people registered to vote in 2018