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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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George Monbiot

What price British democracy when a rich elite has the government’s ear?

Bill Bragg's illustration for London's super-rich

Imagine that a hostile power managed to infiltrate the UK’s government. Imagine that it set out to demoralise and debilitate this country, destroying our sense of common purpose, undermining our stability and trashing the lives of many of our citizens.

Imagine that it had to operate below the radar, within the structures of a nominally democratic system. Let’s follow this thought experiment for a moment. What would such a hostile force set out to do?

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