> somebody defends the quality of democratic representation in the UK Does anyone do that any more? I thought most were in broad agreement that UK has one of t

> somebody defends the quality of democratic representation in the UK Does anyone do that any more? I thought most were in broad agreement that UK has one of the less representative democracies. We also have one of the most centralised democracies - local government has a tiny fraction of the power and proportion of budget that it had 50 years ago.