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Our representative democracy is failing too many of our democratic representatives. While many of us are interested in political issues, fewer of us feel much loyalty to a political party. We can often feel better represented by the campaigning organisations that champion the particular causes that we care about. Unfortunately, as things stand, our democratic representatives in these campaigning organisations rarely get the influence that they deserve.

Perhaps the most obvious example of this in recent years was the case of the subpostmasters. They had been the victims of gross injustice. They had right on their side. They had used all the existing political channels with dogged determination. And they were let down. Neither their hard work nor the force of their argument counted for mu