Only 7% of people think the system is working pretty well. ibid.
Surely there are some good people in there somewhere? Surely they can’t all be bad? ibid.
£80,000 a year and a nice pension. ibid.
Who could forget the duck house … An intolerable abuse of the public purse. ibid.
People have lost faith in the two-party system. ibid.
De Montford’s parliament of 1265 is often regarded as the forerunner of the modern parliament. Professor Robert Bartlett, The Plantagenets II, BBC 2014
Yeltsin responding by dissolving parliament; he cut the phone lines and sealed the building off. But a group of protesters broke through and fighting began around the parliament and then spread to the television station. Adam Curtis, Can’t Get You Out of My Head IV: But What if the People are Stupid? BBC 2021