A democracy not based on honesty and respect is no democracy at all
Ewan Blackledge argues that democracy cannot work without truth
What are we to make of the different parties’ views on the big question of care for the elderly, and other important social concerning fairness and under privilege? We are entering again that phase of our democratic life when the entire country will be awash with avoidances and half-truths. The Conservatives have become the ‘party of the rich’ and Labour has become the ‘people who broke Britain’. Somewhere along the way, the facts and evidence so revered by the Enlightenment thinkers who spawned it, were lost from our democratic process, replaced by half-truth and pure fairy-tale.
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