Obviously, the first question is how on earth is it so high? That one in five people think UK politics is functional is a remarkable outcome. The underlying data does not reveal whether researchers accidentally placed one in five of their research calls to the same tea-drinking cartoon dog inside a burning house. The figure of 17 per cent also ranks the UK well ahead of France, on 13 per cent, where people are rioting in the streets, and the USA on 12 per cent, where the former president has been charged with 34 criminal offences - which so far don't even relate to his role in an attempted coup in which a police officer was killed.
It hardly needs to be stated that democracies only work if people believe in them, so it is a relief to see that the UK, generally speaking, is not tired of democracy itself; it's just tired of how it's working. And it must be said, who can blame them? Five prime ministers in seven years, only one (or arguably two) of whom the people actually voted for. It feels like every summer contains a Potemkin election for a new government, complete with hustings events and televised debates, but at the end of which the viewers realise the only people who actually get a say are a rapidly diminishing band of the very elderly, the vast majority of whom are personally responsible for all of the enormous problems the country faces.
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