> ... the least bad patch. That was Churchill's view, as he said during a speech in the House of Commons in 1947: "Many forms of Gov­ern­ment have been tried,

> ... the least bad patch. That was Churchill's view, as he said during a speech in the House of Commons in 1947: "Many forms of Gov­ern­ment have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pre­tends that democ­ra­cy is per­fect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democ­ra­cy is the worst form of Gov­ern­ment except for all those oth­er forms that have been tried from time to time . . ."