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...ords, and almost nobody has a vote for the one pseudo-democratic element of the whole thing, i.e. the House of Commons. You'll see the same two parties who've been around there for centuries, i.e. the Whigs and the Tories, both utterly unreformed and keen smokers, drinkers and gamblers. There is no secret ballot and votes can - quite legally - be bought for the right price (from the handful of people allowed a vote). There are "rotten boroughs" where the amount of voters is frequently one to ten people.

However, for someone like a Jemima or a Patricia, the particular year you live in - and the particular branch of the letter "Y" - is something you have no real awareness of. You get your mobile 'phone out, chat to your mates, eat enough to bring a grateful tear to the eye of any doughnut-salesman, worry about whether you've done enough washing to last for the next few days and you wonder whether to take the boy opposite you up on the offer he's just made you...

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