Can the people be trusted?

A democratic revolution?:

“It was trailed as a ‘unique chance to rewrite the law of the land’. Listeners to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme were asked to suggest a piece of legislation to improve life in Britain, with the promise that an MP would then attempt to get it onto the statute books.

But yesterday, 26,000 votes later, the winning proposal was denounced as a ‘ludicrous, brutal, unworkable blood-stained piece of legislation’ – by Stephen Pound, the very MP whose job it is to try to push it through Parliament.”