The Truth They Don't Want You to Read

As usual, British democracy is under threat; and, as usual, the source of the threat is not what you might think. British democracy is not, for example, threatened by the spectacle of the Government and Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition standing shoulder to shoulder against the poor. British democracy is not threatened by the idea that the SNP, a legally constituted British political party, has no place in the United Kingdom's Houses of Parliament. British democracy is not threatened by the lobbying system, the FPTP voting system, the near-total lack of policy difference between the two and a bit main parties, or the standard shrug-it-off-or-sack-a-spad response which members of the House of Claimants generally adopt when they are caught with their hands in the till, their snouts in the trough and their arses in the breeze. No; British democracy is threatened by conspiracy theories on Facebook. It must be true, because Douglas Alexander heard it in a supermarket.