I didn't realise that the last group of male adults to get the vote only got it in 1918 (e.g. servants, people living with their parents)
Yes, the period of actual democracy in Britain matches very closely to the period of disastrously bad government.
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I think it's a bit more complicated than that. We had almost no democracy in this country in 1815, but we had the terrible Corn Laws.
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I have preference for less tariffs, but if the Corn Laws are your idea of "terrible government", you have much higher expectations than I.
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I think if Cobden & Bright turned up today, they would have rather different priorities.
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Put another way, democracy is not a long-established characteristic of our way of life; it is a recent experiment.
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