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Attempting to ‘restore faith in politics’ often damages democracy

I published this on Medium earlier today.

https://twitter.com/Paul0Evans1/status/750831965289508864

This entry was posted in Democracy, Representative Democracy, UK Politics, Voting and Elections and tagged Brexit, Petitions, Referendums on July 6, 2016 by Paul Evans.

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