Drum: DEMOCRACY I
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More of us will vote on the reality TV show Big Brother than in the next
general election in Britain. As our editor Paul Boakye joins the POWER
C ommission, an independent inquiry into Britain’s democracy, Drum
asks some of its readers, ‘Why have we become a nation of non–
voters?’ Report by Peter Hobday.
Democracy Dies
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