“The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.”
Jean-Jaques Rousseau, “The Social Contract”, 1762
District councils and LEPs didn’t exist in 1762!
East Devon Watch 
Or as Quintin Hogg put it (and it has rarely been more appropriate than today) we have an ‘elective dictatorship’.
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