For the fourth time in as many years, the United Kingdom is going to the polls.
It is, as we Brits say, “not the done thing.” We think of frequent elections as a characteristic of hot countries — the sorts of places where the politicians wear sunglasses. But the sad truth is that we have started to think of our politicians in much the same way that Italians or Argentines think of theirs — that is, as remote and self-serving.
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