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I'm John Batchster. Visiting with my friend and colleague and mentor Gregory Copley of Defense and Foreign Affairs.

Gregory recently had a very happy week or so in Mother Britain,

and he comes back with thoughts about the present state of affairs in the parliament,

especially representing democracy, the venerated democracy that the U.S. put together in the

18th century and continues. Democracy. And then therein lies a concern, as Gregory has discerned in a new article that there are

anti-democratic pathways opening up in parliament that seems surprising. But then again,

I could find the same thing in the U.S. Congress. Seems to attention that has never resolved.

Whether you trust the vote of the people, the demos the mob, or whether you do not.

Gregory, what is it that you discern in Parliament right now?

Labor government has an overwhelming majority.

Last time I was checking on this, I think it was 165.

In other words, it's large enough under that system that

the leadership in labor can have anything at once with no tension whatsoever. What tells

you that they're moving against their democratic majority into other directions?

Well, it's interesting that although the Labor government has that massive majority

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