According to Janet Daley over at the Telegraph Western Democracy is broken...

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...but it isn't.  There's no crisis in democracy.  The Tories lost the local elections because no one wants them.  Brexit protectionism which is anti free market hasn't worked.  Neither has hating on migrants nor doubling down on it when the majority of voters are against the poisonous Rwanda scheme which the party seems wedded too in the teeth of political gravity.  On top of that the party trashed it's reputation for economic competence by installing Liz Truss.  And lost its moral reputation through Boris Johnson.  It continues to pursue ideological policies that are deeply unpopular like banning strikes and taking the rights of GPs to sign people off sick.  I remember the dying days of John Major but it was not like this... The party seems determined to literally do as much spiteful damage as it can before leaving office almost just for the sake of it...